Owning property is never labour free

MAY 1st... Labour Day!
Muguet has not flouished in the last year of dormancy; it has mostly died when it had been good for several years. There is just a little of the Lily of the Valley surviving and one flower stem.

A few days ago we went to the LOFT cinema in Chatellerault to see the Australian film of the memoirs "TRACKS"... after the novel of the memoirs of the Camel Lady who crossed the desert in 1975.

I really enjoyed it.. One needs the BIG screen.  However, i thought the actress never looked sufficiently dishevelled!   Brave woman in reality!   Inspiring and motivating . No, I could not do that!

I had been bored with blogging but feel an urge to write and publish once again!
I also feel a need to get 'out and about in real life', on real adventures, however small, like that of yesterday, but it helps to have company some of the time!

When I was about 14...

we watched a movie in school... The Red Balloon. It  must have been quite 'avant garde' in those days for our French lessons to have included a movie and indeed it is very wonderful...
I am not sure NOW why we watched it... i suppose because it was so very French.
Maybe the message within the story of the film is that there is always HOPE within dreams...and that the unexpected can bring magic and joy into our transient lives, and how JOY and HAPPINESS can be punctured, destroyed and lost, bringing forth sadness, ruling out happiness.  Of course, in the film the death of one brings life to so many...
Of course none of THOSE THOUGHTS were ever relayed to us as young teenies....but still i wonder what was the reason for showing us as without much spoken word there was only the magic to entice us and so maybe that was it! The Unspoken Word!
Maybe on reflection I was destined to live in France.
Maybe I am happy to be here!
Now I hear fireworks in my village and I wish to be part of whoever's celebrations they are part of!