There was a Vide Greniers in our closest village, Corneilhan, today and we went along.
For those of you who have forgotten a Vide Greniers (literally Empty Attic) is a sort of car boot sale but usually only held once a year in a village when the inhabitants do just that.
This one was fairly typical, about a hundred stalls scattered through the village, selling mostly rubbish that people should have binned long ago.
There as always is the odd dealer who sneaks in the back door but, as always, if you keep your eyes skinned it is possible to find something to amuse.

This on first viewing seemed a fairly innocent carafe.
But then I discovered it came apart in the middle.

As Madame took the asking price of €2 from me she asked did I have any notion what it was.
We both agreed that despite appearances it didn’t seem to be an oil and vinegar.
(For one thing they are both roughly the same size, in most vinaigrettes the oil flask would be larger)
But then, we shrugged (my shrug is getting very fluent) maybe it was.

My other purchase (for one Euro this time) was these two glasses.
No great age on them I would have thought and certainly moulded but their European-ness appealed to me.
I bought them in France, on the bottom it explained that they were “Made in Spain” and the moulded inscription “Absolutely Pure Milk ” is of course in English.

I had to take some glasses from my display to fit them in.
I still have about 4 or 5 boxes full of unpacked glass in the cellar.
I have no idea what I will do with it all.

Talking of the European-ness of things I was, as said previously, at a concert on Síle’s new choir in Figueres last week.
One of the members of the choir is from Scotland (married to a Frenchman).
As we talked afterwards I remarked on the Pan European nature of her performance being a Scotswoman singing in German (the concert was a requiem by Brahms) as part of a French choir performing in Spain.
Very European.