Battling Bands at Boussac

I have a headache, a stiff shoulder and sore calves today. Why? Because yesterday I was dancing for over 4 hours at the Boussac Battle of the Bands. (And I wasn’t the oldest rocker there either but I was the oldest one in the mosh pit!)
The Amities Internationales du Pays de Boussac organised this ‘tournoi’ [...]

The grus flew by

There are currently several tens of thousands of common cranes (grus) flying over France. A couple of thousand of those came over our house this afternoon. Every autumn, usually early November, they fly from northern Europe (Sweden, the Baltic Sea and northern Germany) across France on their way to Spain, although there is another migration [...]