It's been another busy week with various parties a jazz concert, and a protest march against the re-opening of a stone quarry in a particularly pretty valley near Lorgues. The French like their 'manifestations' or 'manifs' for short and have some practice in organizing them. The march followed a circular route of about 3 miles, the quarry in question being about half-way round. In order to entice the largest possible number of protesters the organizers had laid on a well publicized spread of eatables and plenty of wine, all courtesy of an English owned domaine, So 200 people tucked in and in no time at all the original aim of the exercise had largely been forgotten. Lots had brought their dogs, including two beagles. These got very excited, thinking that the hunting season had begun, and as soon as we moved off they started to bay loudly. All the other dogs joined in, and in a brief flight of fancy I was back in the saddle once again.
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