Readers of our blog are probably wondering what has happened to it over the past few weeks, well Mary is away in foreign parts (she has gone over to Glasgow to baby sit our two granddaughters). This has left me at home in France baby sitting 5 cats and with a long list of jobs to do whilst Mary is away. As well as the usual clean this and fix that items on the list there were also reminders to go to the Loto and the Bal Masqué. I’m happy to report that these two tasks (as well as some of the other tasks) have now been completed.
Our village Loto (basically bingo) was held on the 26th of February and was advertised as a ‘Loto Gourmaund ‘ as all the prizes were food and drink related. Some of the prizes are bought by the Foyer Rural and some, such as meals out, are donated. The Loto is a big money spinner for our Foyer Rural and can bring in a couple of thousand Euros to the coffers.
The next task was the Bal Masqué. Last year we held our first Bal Masqué in early May and we had a great turn out, this year the Foyer Rural decided to push the boat out and book live entertainment. A young couple, who entertained us at the Repas Dansant in 2009, were booked. They play all the popular dance songs : waltzes, pasodobles , marches and of course the Madison – the girl also entertained us with a cabaret act, which seemed to involve sitting on gentlemen’s knees whilst singing Edith Piaf songs and dancing the dance no French cabaret can do with out ‘le Can Can’.
Most of us turned out in elaborate costumes, there were two cowboys and a cow girl, a monk, a nun and two clowns and a rabbi in a big bushy beard who nobody could identify until she laughed. Sadly though the turn out was very poor, this was possibly due to the timing as March 3rd is the middle weekend of the half-term holidays in our region and also during the ski season. So I think most of the profits from the Loto will go on subsidising the Bal Masqué.
Normally blog service will be resumed shortly as Mary returns on Saturday and I can now cross off another item from the list – write blog.
Chris
