Not exactly a glamour shoot

This is what you look like after a few hours sanding old beams. Never a clean job, you end up eating most of the dust you have taken off if it doesn't end up in your eyes. The good news is that once you have done the job once it is done.
Not dismayed in the evening we set off into the wilds of the Cevennes to a party hosted by a Dutchman who has gone native. An hour and a half away with a two kilometre dirt track finale, the house was not somewhere you would stumble upon.
An eclectic mix of people, the pork form one of his pigs slaughtered earlier in the week was as good as you get.
The bad news was getting back at 1:30 am.....