Paradise Revisited

Yesterday I skipped a blog, left for the Horse and Donkey Center outside of Lignieres at 7pm, we possessed tickets to see two acts as part of the L'air du Temps music festival presented by Les Bain-Douche theater of Lignieres. The Horse and Donkey center has many large buildings, some that have been converted to venues for stage and music productions. A huge ancient barn all duded up with stage lighting, lasers and music equipment galore stood before us. My estimate of the crowd was a few under a thousand who had paid the sum of 21 Euros for the privilege of watching Vallerie Leulliot and Florent Marchet last night. What a show! Vallerie was first up and she and her band were wonderful, She sang and played played keyboard and also a bit of guitar with which she is a fine talent. Her music has the rhythm of a reggae beat with soft melancholy lyrics, lovely to look at and easy to listen to she was an instant hit with the audience and with us. Here's a bit from youtube for you to sample of her work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98MwMVHnIs

She was followed by the terrific band of Florent Marchet, wonderful complex melodies and a rhythmic rock/jazz melange. He had the audience in his hands. What a show...his went on with 4 encores no less, for 3 solid hours! We got out at 12:30am! What a night of entertainment it was, the audience was so very appreciative and the bands of such high quality, my hat's off to Les Bain-Douche and the city of Lignieres for this fabulous night, one we won't soon forget. Here's the link for Florent's group on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfRhmxMjCGs
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Home today after a morning at a brocante full of rusted junk and folk art made from clothespins. I bought two containers of french fries for 3 Euros...delicious! Back we each took up our respective work stations, Kelly on the floor of the middle bedroom, soon to be TV/computer room, and applied the 5th coat of some white paint over the deep green color that was there. I cleaned up the guest room of a few tools and began the lighting project in the potty. This invoved hanging a brass chandlier with 3 lamps by a hook in mid ceiling and running the needed wiring via above wall channeling, that's what you must do here if you want electricity anywhere in one of these old houses with 2 foot thick walls made of mud and stone. It took me about an hour to pull out the old porcelin fixture from the side of the wall and do the channel installation badly (without neat turns and covers) and wire the lamp to the switch. It all works and Kelly is pleased with the result, so am I. Tomorrow is grout the showerroom floor day.
See you later!
Howard