This meant the house must have once been a tailor's or a dressmaker's, so I took some photos and consulted Roger Lezeau's notes on buildings in the town, published over several editions of Les Cahiers de la Poterne, the journal of the Société d'archaeologique de Preuilly (SAP).
To practice your French comprehension and learn the difference between a tailor (tailleur) and a dressmaker (couturier) check out this video, part of a series by TV5MONDE called Merci Professeur.
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Beer O'Clock: I don't remember ever experiencing an unpleasantly hot wind in Europe before, but yesterday was hot, with a stifling breeze. Nevertheless, by 6pm yesterday Simon had given Claudette a second waxing and she is the shiniest car you have ever seen. I had dug the spuds. It was clearly time for a Leffe Blonde.
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Wildlife News: I was pleased to see a Southern White Admiral Limenitis reducta yesterday, lurking about one of the honeysuckles Lonicera sp in the orchard. This is a beautiful butterfly, a species having a good year this year (I never thought I'd be saying that about any species this year the way the first half of the year went!). Honeysuckle is its host plant, so hopefully I will get babies in due course.
Also nice to see was a Common Goldenring Corduligaster boltonii dragonfly, whilst swimming at a friend's place. No photos, as I was in the swimming pool. (Catching a quick rest between laps, in case you are wondering how I saw it -- half a kilometre yesterday, which is a lot for me.)
5 comments:
The new Pentax WG-10 is waterproof to 20 metres....
get yourself one and then we'll see the pix of the bottom of the pool!!
Oh... and the dragonfly, too.
As an aside... my brother photographed a Clouded Yellow a couple of days ago...
hardly ever seen in Breckland [let alone Norfolk]...
and we have a much greater number than I've ever seen before...
I was wondering if they'd had a
much more successful year than the weather seemed to indicate and have been able to push much further north?
My grandmother was a dressmaker - a very skilled trade in the first half of the 20th century before mass production took over. P.
on the scuture it semms to be a C R ...
Tim: the Clouded Yellows don't seem to be unusually abundant to me, but I am seeing more pale ones (by which I mean Berger's and C. crocea f. helice, not Pale Clouded Yellow's, which are not actually very pale.) Berger's Clouded Yellow in particular is much more abundant this year. Luc will do a report shortly, so that will tell us what the situation France wide is.
William: I know. I wondered if it was a 'C' for a moment, then I realised that what looks like the top of a 'C'is just a fault in the stone. The serif top left tells you it's an 'L', not a 'C'. When you see it for real it is obviously an 'L', but the photo has picked up details you don't notice when you look at the building itself.
neat. the trade carved into stone and into generations.
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