Hello!
Congratulations to Ste Foy Market which has been voted the
peoples favourite market in France. It’s
held on a Saturday morning and spreads out from the centre through the town
taking up a dozen roads.
Another market I love is the one in Castillon on a Monday
morning, that too spreads out and takes over the town and it’s where I bought
my strawberries this morning. I picked
my first garden strawberries this weekend – but not enough to eat for dessert.
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| Strawberries at Castillon Market |
If you have another market you like, let me know and I can
include it on the blog.
The sun is back to tempt us out into the gardens – have a
great week in the Dordogne and Gironde regions, and let me know if you hear of
any events and I’ll post them on the page.
Best wishes,
Helen
Week 19 2014
Brocante de Printemps continues this week in Bordeaux at the
Quinconces.
Monday 5 May
5 May 20h30:Notre concert de la chorale de Libourne
église St Ferdinand au programme TELEMANN
et
BACH, accompagné par l'orchestre baroqueVILLA
BOHEME
Il serait judicieux de distribuer des flyers de
notre concert du 10 juin!
5 May 20h45 : Joe is showing in VO at the Grandecran
in Libourne.
An ex-con, who
is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with
the choice of redemption or ruin.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheriden and Gary Poulter
Tuesday 6 May
Wednesday 7 May
Thursday 8 May – Fete de la Victoire
8 May : Marche a
le Ferme at Chateau Bonhoste.
8 May : Brocante at Pessac-sur-Dordogne
8 May : Brocante Vide Greniers at Montpon Menesterol
8 May : 3
Brocante/Vide greniers in Bergerac – (1)Ecole André Malraux –
(2)Hameau du Pré Joli – (3)Sous le Parapluie de Picquecailloux
Friday 9 May
Saturday 10 May
10 May : EcoFestival at Pellegrue
10 May : Brocante professionelle at Place Abel Surchamp in
Libourne
10 – 11 May : Portes Ouvertes at Chateau Les Farcies du Pech
featuring an exhibitions of pastels by Peter Thomas.
Sunday 11 May
11 May : Brocante
Vide grenier at Saint Magne de Castillon.
11 May : Vide Greniers at Lamothe Montravel
11 May : Vide Grenier et Floralies at Le Fleix
11 May : Vide Grenier/ Vide ta Chambre (Empty your
attic and your bedroom!) Salle Rene
Coicaud, Rue du sergent rey, Bergerac
11 – 20 May : 50% off all screenings
at the Grandecran in Libourne.
Coming up…
Soirée jazz le 15 mai à Ste Foy la
Grande at the Bar du Chai, featuring ‘Less Than Four’ http://lessthanfourmusic.com/video/
I will be in St.Méard de Gurçon on Tuesday 13th
May next to the church at 1.30pm.
This drop off point will be preceeded by a delivery run
form Villefranche de Lonchat down to Castillon-le-Bataille and then along the
river to St. Foy-la-Grande, if you want to be included on the delivery run then
you must pre-order.
There are the usual choices of products which you
can see on our website www.franklinfarm.fr. Do not hesitate to ask me if you would
like a special joint of lamb prepared for a celebration for example a stuffed,
rolled leg or shoulder of lamb.
If anyone would like something different this month I can
prepare:
Herb and onion lamb-burgers
Paprika and garlic lamb burgers
Spicy Morroccan meatballs
Keftedes- Greek meatballs
Italian spiced pork sausages (no rusk) either
sweet or hot and spicy
If you would like me to prepare something different
please let me know as soon as possible.
See you soon
Helen Franklin
And finally…
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| Bees in the neighbours' garden |
The bee adventure continues.
We were alerted to a swarm in a nearby garden and headed over to rescue it
and found the bees nestled in the side of a bush. They were carefully coaxed into a box and
later in the afternoon they were all quite contentedly settled around the queen.
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| Coaxing the bees into the box |
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| Safely in the box |
The problem arose when they were transferred from the
travelling box into a beautiful ready made home – complete with comb. The queen decided that she wasn’t going in
and took her swarm 10 m up into the acacia tree close by.
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| Transferring to the 'des res' |
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| Bees in the tree... |
As I write this I can look out of my upstairs window and see
the swarm of bees happily hanging on the branch above the ready for occupancy ‘des
res’. We can’t reach them, we’ll just
have to hope that one of the scout bees thinks that the hive is a great spot
and that the bees move themselves in.
