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Old clothing material find
Whilst digging up the old tiles (tomettes) on the first floor, I came across this bit of material that was buried in the mortar holding the tiles down. As the mortar was on the crumbly side, it came away quite easily. It’s four different types of material – a straw-coloured light-weave hessian, a blue felt, an…
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The interesting Monsieur Roland Amiel
Whilst in the graveyard today, there was a man tending a grave. It was his father’s grave, a man that had grown up in the village. A typical local. A vigneron (person that work on the vines) overalls, beret, southern accent. I got chatting to him, and he was just full of information about the…