The daughter, the web designer, has been busy giving the Presbytere website an upgrade. Check it out at:
wwwlepresbytere.net

It looks like my Hoopoe has company.

A lucky Vide Grenier find, of a book about him, introduced me to this 1920’s painter from Beziers yesterday. This is his picture of the Pont de Diable in Olargues.
Quite beautiful

Wild Euphorbia picked in the ditches by the village yesterday.

Missus Nunn and Missus Dwyer take the sun in Olargues.

This fellow moves so fast, darting in and out of the white peach blossom, that the only way I could capture a shot of him was by focusing on a blossom and hoping he would come into shot.
He did.
But his wings move so fast they are only depicted as a faint blur.

The French have a great habit of trying to make a (supposed) virtue out of a drawback.
Hotel rooms which are described as “cosy” are usually the size of your average fridge.

My friend Donal Moore has provided me with another one.

He was trying to book a hotel in Belgium and came across a bedroom where the bed was described as “Lit Double (coquette)”- which I would translate as a tiny but dotey double bed- Caveat Emptor !.
Donal however decided to try it out on Google Translate where they translated it with elan, taking the other meaning of Coquette they said it was : Double Bed (flirtatious)

Needs nothing said.Thanks Tomás Kalmar.