The sales
I know I said there was nothing in 'em, but...
Yesterday and today in Pessac there's a thing called la grande braderie.
In Bordeaux this is an annual institution where shops put their unsold sale stock on tables outside in the street and hordes surge up and down. In Pessac it's a more sobre affair altogether though madame and Liz Griffin went yesterday and got some trousers and shoes and other essentials.
They also found a stall where you just stand around with lots of other (mostly elderly) people and this guy on the stage brings out various things and gives them away. Yes, gives them away. Madame returned with four tea-towels, about 5 very small hand towels (I adopted a gorgeous orange one as a trombone cloth), a pack of large plastic spoons and a "swiffer" patent dust-mop in a fetching shade of red.
I arrived to pick them up and did a quick tour of the street - mainly stalls selling nice bread, super jams, glorious chocolate and churros (they're called chichis here, but they're churros). Oh, and the traditional matress stall, found in all good French markets. When I found the folks back at the freebie stall the guy saw me and gave me a nice red umbrella.
Madame asked around and apparently it's old promotional material that they get shot of in the street like this...
I suspect that the town of Pessac organised la grande braderie in order to see how it will work when they shut the main street and divert the traffic round the back streets during the impending major alterations.
Oh yes, and France Telecom have been selling off their stocks of MSI Wind. Well, it's the Medion Akoya 1210E, which is an MSI Wind with Medion printed on it and an "Orange" sticker. It's an old model with 80GB hard disk but they've been selling it off for various prices such as 199€ or ... get this ... 99€ ! AZERTY keyboard, too !
Pugwash and company have been busy loading Mac OSX 10 on them to produce the MSI MacBook Nano. Very tempting, but against Apple's very dubious licensing agreement.
Yesterday and today in Pessac there's a thing called la grande braderie.
In Bordeaux this is an annual institution where shops put their unsold sale stock on tables outside in the street and hordes surge up and down. In Pessac it's a more sobre affair altogether though madame and Liz Griffin went yesterday and got some trousers and shoes and other essentials.
They also found a stall where you just stand around with lots of other (mostly elderly) people and this guy on the stage brings out various things and gives them away. Yes, gives them away. Madame returned with four tea-towels, about 5 very small hand towels (I adopted a gorgeous orange one as a trombone cloth), a pack of large plastic spoons and a "swiffer" patent dust-mop in a fetching shade of red.
I arrived to pick them up and did a quick tour of the street - mainly stalls selling nice bread, super jams, glorious chocolate and churros (they're called chichis here, but they're churros). Oh, and the traditional matress stall, found in all good French markets. When I found the folks back at the freebie stall the guy saw me and gave me a nice red umbrella.
Madame asked around and apparently it's old promotional material that they get shot of in the street like this...
I suspect that the town of Pessac organised la grande braderie in order to see how it will work when they shut the main street and divert the traffic round the back streets during the impending major alterations.
Oh yes, and France Telecom have been selling off their stocks of MSI Wind. Well, it's the Medion Akoya 1210E, which is an MSI Wind with Medion printed on it and an "Orange" sticker. It's an old model with 80GB hard disk but they've been selling it off for various prices such as 199€ or ... get this ... 99€ ! AZERTY keyboard, too !
Pugwash and company have been busy loading Mac OSX 10 on them to produce the MSI MacBook Nano. Very tempting, but against Apple's very dubious licensing agreement.
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