09h00 – What a concert, part of the Val de jazz series, last night – didn’t get back until about 01h00. The first part with the Gospel Singers was really not very good, apart from the fact that it’s not my scene. They were often off-key and off-beat. The accompaniment didn’t seem to have any sparkle, it was quite bland. I had expected it at least to be rousing and joyous.
During the interval I was really pleased to find some decent beer at the bar, some La Drôlesse from the Brasseie Sancerroise (an artisanale / real ale brewery from Sancerre), there was also home-made savouries and cakes for sale all at very reasonable prices.
The second part was very different a Hommage to Django Reinhardt, it’s 100 yeasr since he was born in 1910. The band was Les Doigts De L’Homme [The Fingers of Man] (Links — Wiki — Amazon — YouTube), a french jazz manouche (Gypsy Swing) group formed in 2002 by Olivier Kikteff solo guitarist.
WOW what a show, what a perfomance, really well done, very professional, also very humorus (apparently, I’m afraid my French was not up to it). Unfortunately we were unable to buy their CD post show as there was an medical emergency with one a person from the audience the emergency services had commandeered the vestible. But it’s on Amazon. This was their intro piece Blue Skies.
09h30 – What now, after browsing the net for Les Doigts De L’Homme it’s back to the garage. Maybe we can get to the Toucy apero-concert tonight, they are free.
11h00 – Just bought the whole CD – Les Doigts De L’Homme, 1910 – from Amazon.
12h00 – Took a short video clip on the Nikon 5200 of a mini digger in Eric’s pond cleaning it apparently! All sheets on roof, just cutting angles and securing with special fixings, nails with a large plastic coloured head to match the corrugated sheets. I bought 300 but I’ll need more, Onduline the manufacturer suggests 20 per sheet.
16h30 – No apero-concert at Toucy, P’s just reminded me that she’s singing tonight in Joigny. Roof all on, fascias up, guttering nearly completed, bit of a fudge around the angle, it’ll need some mastic in there I suspect.
18h00 – Eric and Albane came to see the new structure and I borrowed a short length of guttering from Eric to finish the job and paid him for the railways I took from his stack.
19h15 – P off to Joingny, I had strict instruction to test the bread that was in the oven in 40 mins. This I did. The guttering from the house now flows onto the garage and then into the garage guttering and subsequently into the lake. I intend to put a 1000l (1 tonne) reservoir tank in the garage for the back garden, the rainwater will then flow via that.
