Fête de la Musique...

was last thursday, when anyone can perform any music without incurring royalty payments, so long as the performance is free. Our concert was actually on friday night and went very well. There were about 80 people in the audience which wasn't bad considering the weather and the fact that the chapel only holds about 120 maximum. We thoroughly enjoyed it, as did Pierre-Jean & Edwige and Patrick & Marie-Claire. The comments we got afterwards included how nice it was to have such a varied programme - three languages and three very different styles.

However the comité des fêtes de St Lubin were all down-in-the-mouth because their proposed outdoor rock concert on Saturday night looked as if it was going tobe a wash-out. (see http://monsite.orange.fr/rockmoelou/page1.html) They were faced with holding it in the salle des fêtes in Kergrist Moëlou, which wouldnt have been the same at all - ie not in St Lubin!

However, we were incredibly lucky with the weather. They decided yesterday morning to chance an outdoor event and last evening was fine and quite mild. Some huge black clouds passed by to the north but the field had dried out enough to get a lorry trailer towed onto it using a tractor.

Pete spent the evening selling 'casse-croûtes' ie snacks - in this case barbecued sausages in a baguette while I washed-up a million knives, forks and coffee cups in a dingy shack using what was unmistakably a cow feed-bucket as a washing-up bowl! I also got a lesson in how to mix batter for crêpes, but I will need to practice before I can confidently stand and make huge thin crêpes to order with everyone standing watching. They make it look so easy...

We have spent the last week getting in the plumbing for the gîte before we lay the concrete floor downstairs.

then suddenly most of the work gets hidden!

We are hoping to get the floor poured on tuesday, as Pete is off to the UK to see his mum on wednesday. Getting the floor done depends on us barrowing enough rubble onto the space today and tomorrow to fill up some of the 20 -30 cm height difference across the floor from back to front. Of course the weather is being foul again...