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Welcome to French Food
Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food
and because I live in rural
France the stress will be upon French food. There are numerous posts
concerning life in France and, certainly,
opinions
about anything that strikes my fancy.
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Village life - ain't it great
More village events this
Sunday. This time it was the formal opening of our new village library.
Sorry, Its no longer just a library its a media center. Or at least that's
how I translate Mediatheque! You can judge for yourself on its website.
Which is http://mediatheq.fr/culture.ht. This was done by Michell our
local guru.
Note that we have an English section in the library with over 400 books.
Also note that the libraries of several of the local villages cooperate by
sharing their book lists so you can check out a book from any of them &
return it to any other. Neat huh?
As they always seem to do the local builders did a great job in renovating
the building. It was pretty derelict before they started, but now is very
modern inside with class & meeting rooms as well as the library. Outside
its very much in keeping with the village style. Located just behind the
school & Marie its very convenient.
You may remember that the one English candidate for the town council
didn't quite make it in the election. Well, she's now running the library!
And I'd say off to a great start (even though she upset the incumbent
'librarian' who oversaw the little old library in the Marie, but that's
local politics isn't it) what with an English section, computer classes
going and so much demand that there are two set of English classes going
for the children with lots of adults wanting in as well. This could well
turn out to be a real special resource for our village.
It was great to see somewhere between 50-75 people turn out for the
opening. The usual suspects made speeches, The Mayor, a politician from
the Department and, of course, the new head of the library. (very nervous,
but she made a good speech in French!) We had a specially written peom and
a reading from a local author. (he reads beautifully!)
That's what I like about village life. Nothing dramatic, but everyone
pretty much pulling together to make things better. The apero wasn't bad
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