The English Paysanne

Today in the post we received a DVD of the film we had a shot in back in the beginning of September last year. It's a documentary to commemorate the 1st World war. which throughout the four years of battle ten Averyonnaise families each day received the news of  relatives death in the trenches. That is a lot of lives lost.  One family lived at La Singlarie, which is why we have a quick shot in it (not that i have watched it yet) and we have an invitation to the premiere! Sadly we will not be attending as its in Rodez and right in the middle of animal feeding time - not sure I could face a large screen of myself, bad enough looking in the mirror each morning. Our invite has gone to Alex down the road who will no doubt go along on our behalf, only hope he will wash and brush up and wear his finest attire for the event. hopefully my french will be good enough to understand the commentary enough to give a small review soon.

No two days are the same here, we like a bit of variety, most of which comes in the form of jobs around the farm. Half of the chickens went off this morning, cereal was milled, a bit of veggie collecting and helping farmer J with erecting an electric fence for the cows and collecting oven ready chickens - all in a days work. Just before animal feeding time friends had come to collect their chickens (oven ready ones) and towards the end of our coffees a car pulled up with four french men asking if they could film in front of our barn. While they were getting ready our friends left ready for us to feed the animals.  One of the guys explains that his father was born in the house (no longer there) next to the barn, a film was being made to commemorate the 1st World war. After a discussion farmer J was asked if he would take part by chatting to the son. I got my Zanussi* to snap a few shoots and somehow also got roped in too. Cue filming - he walks up to our gate where ...