This should be a brief round up as there’s little to report. It’s still nice and sunny but the temperature’s dropped down a bit, most notably at night when it’s been in single digits. We’ve even had to revert to lighting the fire again of an evening. It looks like it’s going to pick up a little over the next few days, which would be welcomed by us, the cats and our seedlings.
Work’s calming down for me now. I have the site for ALS but this is moving slowly. The client is actually a team of five, which means decisions take longer, so there’s been a lot of hanging around on my part. I also have another one I started last year, but have been waiting for the content. This is finally starting to drip through. Matt’s busier with his big project plus a redesign of an existing site.
I’m still having bouts of tooth/jaw/throat issues at the moment. I get a reprieve and feel better but then it comes back again, which is getting very tedious now. I see the specialist in Périgueux next week so hopefully there will be progress on that soon.
As our week’s so light on activity, I shall pad out this entry with some other news. The first round of the French election is this sunday. I’ve been cautiously optimistic of late, but this is fading now as the race has tightened considerably. The biggest upset is the sudden surge in support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a regular feature on the French political scene. He is an extreme left-wing politician with some radical ideas that would make Corbyn (for the UK readers) or Sanders (for our US readers) seem very right wing. I’m all for left wing, but when you want to cosy up to Putin, villify Germany and quit NATO, the WTO and the EU, you’re clearly unhinged. This course of action would destroy both France and the EU.
He’s always been a fringe figure, but he had a very good night at the debates and has managed to keep the momentum going since. In fact it’s pretty much neck and neck now between him, Macron, Fillon and Le Pen. Macron was the favourite to win, but it’s now anyone’s guess. For me, the scariest part is 3/4 of these candidates fall somewhere on the anti-EU spectrum. Only Macron provides a positive voice and I worry France is just too pessimistic at the moment to buy it.
Meanwhile back in Brexit Land, Theresa May continues to be consistently inconsistent. A Remain campaigner who is now a hardcore Leaver, she has repeatedly stated she would not call an early election. Until today when she did exactly that. It’s a cynical move based on her vast lead in the polls, and it will more or less wipe out the Labour party. Not that anyone will notice: under their current leader, they’re utterly useless in any case. She’s on track to secure herself a giant majority and from then on, will be unstoppable in her quest to destroy Britain’s future.
Back to Mazeroux, Milhac had its annual Easter fair at the weekend. As usual their were rides etc for the kids, and a buvette (outdoor bar) for the adults. Like last year, Matt and I manned the bar on the Sunday, getting the evening shift again. Last year there was also food, but no-one organised any this time around. Sophie manned the bar with us and she’d thought to at least bring some crisps. But by the end of the evening there were a lot of very, very drunk people. Mostly they were fine but one or two of them were getting tedious. It was also really cold and we couldn’t see very well so all told it was not all that fun. The last drunkard staggered and swayed his way home at around 1:30 and we hurried home to defrost.
Right, that’s about it from me. We have two wedding-related meetings today, with the Notaire and with the campsite we hope to use as the venue. More news on that next week.