We went along to our first village patrimoine (heritage) society do on Saturday. It was billed as a morning renovating a holy fountain, a lunchtime barbecue and an afternoon trip to see the Pierre Tomberesse (our dolmen and aforeblogged murder stone - yes, our dolmen really does have a name ( Read more... )

Had a very interesting visit lunchtime from a member of the village patrimoine (heritage) committee asking if he could bring a party of fifty people to see our dolmen next month. Not that he actually used the word 'dolmen' - from my spattering of French it sounded much more like murder stone - 'pierre de meutrier' or something similar with a lot of ( Read more... )