Eymet Market

Eymet..ay may I just sometimes don't get it!
Sometimes Sundays are the busiest day, people milling everywhere and sometimes the queues to
the Pizzeria has a queue past the knicker shop and down on a Wednesday night out of season!

It gets a dreadful press due to the English population but a study I heard recently said more French
people live in the UK than English in France (one I find hard to believe I have to say). I suppose when
you think of Restaurants, teachers, road crews in southern England then there are plenty of those.

Eymet is actally a very pretty place when you take the time to look at the architecture, yet it actually
very different when you look from building to building they can have totally different styles.

Go visit, enjoy there are so many little cafes and shops and its a hidden place that many people I know
even 30 miles North have never even heard of

Isak Dinesen

What is a man, when you come to think upon him,
but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite
artness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?


There was such a small man doing just that role on the route N21
with a large arched sign right by him direction Pissot yesterday

It could only be France

When is summer over?

Now when I go to Bordeaux the shops have coats on the rails, radiators and insulation
are on special offer in the Brico publicity. I have just returned from England and every
clothes shop has the school winter uniform in the windows.

We are told to eat seasonally, live seasonally but why can't we shop seasonally?

Soon the night markets will end, and meeting everyone will come to an end for another year.
I miss most the social life that is so easy in the summer. BBQ's, crisp white wine and salads.
When I asked someone if they want anything from an English supermarket they said get them some Lemsip

The weather says 30 degrees for the next few days.

I was going to the beach today

There is nothing more to say.

Seasonal produce

I have been taking an active interest in the produce available
at the local markets. Between the locals Miramont seems to be
more farmer orientated and I also confess to being taken with
some of the gadgets and plants on offer. We British are often
said to be gastronomic bystanders when it comes to French cuisine,
however having seen Donkey meat sausages at a market recently
I have my doubts.

Autumn

Sure sign of Autumn approaching. X factor on TV.

Sure sign it's still summer as mozzies are still coming in when the windows

are open and the lights are on.

Sure sign of too many oysters and local wine and getting older.

Staying in wanting peace and quiet on a Saturday night

Soggy weekend in June

Looked out of my window and I can see a soggy weekend in June.

There is a Medieval fete in Montflanquin, Brocante in Duras and

a wine festival in Eymet. The calendar says August 15th!

A holiday day in France and it feels like I want to light the fire, make a hot

drink and sit and watch the Olympics.

Perhaps the sun will come out later.

Gymnastics reminds me of the weather. It was dull yesterday.