You turn your back for ten weeks...

 Reflecting on a small moment at Easter

We were cycling around by the church and approached the Relais de la Poste, our trusty, lunchtime only, local resto. We decided to stop for a breather and a local passed us telling us "Il est ferme" We thought that we could see that for ourselves and shrugged our shoulders. We thought we recognised the local as the patron but thought nothing of it.
We now realise he was telling us that "it is closed" as in gone, kaput, no more and not just shut for the day.

Juin 8th jour de la foire de greniers

Even when I read something in the local newsletter about Le Ancien Relais and a reference to Restaurant Aux Savours De Marsilly did it occur to me that the Relais was gone and replaced by the said ASdM in the same premises and it opened on June 8th. And here's the thing - a close inspection of the opening times shows that, while it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, for the rest of the week the bar is open from 10.00am to 9.30pm the resto is also open in the evenings 7.00pm to 9.30pm. A new dawn.

However not everything has changed as the third snap shows - this past weekend was a Fermenture Exceptionnelle and it was close on Saturday and Sunday. Quelle surprise.

Peter
And now for something from yer one.
Sunday morning and as normal we are listening to Brian Matthews,that's because we are often busy on a Saturday morning when he is on live. So it's a delight to see that the british licence fee for the beeb ensure that even in the depths of France one can hear decent musich. The very first song up is from Cliff Richard which yer man can sing along to every word and in time. Bet not a lot of people knew that he was a CR fan including me. There was him saying he was a soul man. Now I know why he was sad when they put the roof on Wimbledon.