Madame Le Clerc...

[Ty Korrigan]

I don't know why I am sharing this with you bunch of hairies but...

We quoted a fair price for a short back and sides on an overgrown garden in the village.

Having spent a wet morning dragging brush Madame invited us for coffee served through her kitchen window.

She was born there in the kitchen in 1928

It had an earth floor no electricity and 8 people including a lodger lived in a room barely 6mx4m plus the loft where the dried beans and straw where kept.

Water was from a well some 50m way.

Madame recalls when the british ran away and the germans in their turn likwise.

The americans who gave her a lift one day to town in a truck and her future husband who was evacuated at dunkirk and returned with the free french to fight another day.

But most on my mind was the local garden company who charged this old war bird 3 times more than us for a whole day when we took 5 hours.

Madame tipped us 50€ and kissed us both.

Vivre De Gaule!

[Treewarrior]

I envy you working in La France!

Good luck with your venture.

[Tommy_B]

Fair play, But is she a looker?