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Goodness, it's absolutely yonks since I blipped a pylon! Almost a year. I have to say the red pylons were a high point, and they haven't been so interesting since. Here my eye was just caught by the cables glinting in the low sun. And it's the only photo I took today.

This evening I went on a mission to Caunes-Minervois for one of the Choeurs du Lauragais' 50th anniversary concerts. The choir features our choir director, plus quite a few of our members, so there were plenty of people to say hello to. William had chosen some of the most popular pieces from their repertoire, so it was a crowd pleaser: Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Fauré, Duruflé, Puccini, Kodaly. They finished with the last two choruses of the Messiah, with the Hallelujah Chorus as an encore. Which must have been quite exhausting after a concert that lasted nearly two hours. 

Home around midnight -- I was surprised to pass through some major and very active roadworks in Peyriac-Minervois at that hour, but it turns out that while felling trees earlier in the day the local council had ripped up a whole bunch of fibre optic and copper cables, depriving 3,000 people of phones and internet. I think they could be looking at a very large bill ...