France is mega-quiet today

It's July holiday time ( on Saturday the roads were REALLY CLOGGED ), tomorrow is Bastille Day ( Hurrah ! ) so today lots and lots of people are doing the bridge, that is taking to day off to have a long weekend. Not only that, but it's nice weather, if a trifle hot ( it's currently 25° in our living room, but if we'd opened the windows it may have cooled down a little. )

Gwilym and Catrin are off to the beach with our neighbour to play with their little nipper, Arthur. Meanwhile Pat is baby-sitting the three-month old and I am stripping a PC for parts !

Tomorrow being Bastille Day there's a military parade at Quinconces ( thinks "what's a défilé in Engish..?" ) followed by a concert which I suspect my prof de trombone will be playing in, followed by fireworks over the Garonne ( 22h30, durée 25 min ). So we'll probably forsake our normal Pessac festivities for Bordeaux town centre.

I also want to get the shopping tomorrow because the supermarkets are currently doing that "Please shop on Public Holidays" thing and offering quintuple loyalty points.

And what do points mean ?

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Larry said…
PRIZES.... (Good old Humph)

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