Hello!
Last weekend was Mother's Day in France. Here are some of the beautiful pottery roses the potters made in the studio in Sauveterre de Guyenne.
There's a busy weekend coming up... you'll need to get up early to fit everything in!
Please don't hesitate to keep sending your contributions. Also, if you're making a special journey, sometimes it's worth checking that the event is actually going ahead, or that I've put it on the right date. I know I've made mistakes!馃槵
Whatever you do this weekend in the Gironde and Dordogne regions - have a great week, and we have another bank holiday coming up on Monday.
Week 22
2 June
3 June
4 June
5 June
Coming up...
Monday 6 June - Lundi de Pentec么te
Pentecost Monday, or Whit Monday, is the day after Pentecost. Many
Christians believe that on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus
Christ's disciples. Pentecost Monday was a public holiday in France
until 2005 and again from 2008. The holiday was reintroduced after about
15,000 elderly people died in a heatwave in the summer of 2003. The
French government made a commitment to financially support the elderly
and people with disabilities by deciding that Pentecost Monday would no
longer be a public holiday from 2005 onwards.
The public holiday was replaced with the Day of Solidarity.
On this day people worked for no pay. Their wages were collected to
assist the elderly and persons with disabilities. However, there were
demonstrations and Pentecost Monday became a public holiday again in
2008. The French government introduced other fiscal measures to raise
money to support the elderly and persons with disabilities. See more about Pentecote in France here
and also...
And finally...
From pottery roses, to the real thing from the garden.
