The party animal is back and I am not pleased. I will have to find out who are the equivalent of French environmental health, failing that a letter to the Mayor may be in order.
Not much chance of a lie-in on Sunday’s due to the midday siren test. On top of the Mairie there is a very loud siren which is sounded to call out the volunteer fire brigade when there is a big shout. We had a similar system in Thornbury about 30 years ago, before the advent of pagers and mobile phones.
For some reason they test this siren at noon on Sunday’s (instead of say Saturday lunchtimes as they do in Austria). My bedroom is about 10m away from this siren so there’s no chance of sleeping through it. To compensate for this interruption to my beauty sleep I take the opportunity under the cover of siren noise to indulge in a bit of historical role-play by shouting out of the window “The Germans are coming, the Germans are coming”. I am told this in bad taste. C’est la vie.