Party Time

After more DIY supplies research this morning (the right kind of wood is hard to find and plasterboard costs more than a house) it was all about the school fair. Events started with a review of the childrens' work on the local woad industry, continued with traditional games like sack races, coconut shy and apple ducking, then presentations to the children who are leaving this year for College (high school) and rounding everything off was a buffet.

All this happened in the grounds of the Convent next to the school where the children go for their lunch every day. Here a helper at the drinks table is making sure that every last drop of Alsace fizz goes into the fruit punch - a wonderfully refreshing lemony concoction. Although we inevitably did a bit of standing on the fringes feeling a bit, well, different and new, folk were very friendly and we all made lots of new friends. We left at sundown - and were amongst the first to leave.

Slight disappointment when I got home to realise (while watering the plants) that something has swiped my sunflowers. I planted them just outside the top garden - in the expectation that given that the surrounding fields are unfenced and full of sunflowers, nothing would be interesting in eating them. How wrong. They have been nibbled off leaving stubby stalks sticking out of the ground. There were half a dozen left last night - but it was too dark to think of transplanting them somewhere within the garden fence - and with the benefit of backblipping I can report that the rest were nibbled off during the night. I blame the hares.