Does anyone know why this isnât the usual way in France? On offer is usually sugar alone, nutella, or jam. Rarely any lemon
I know, itâs a great shame. We did get one local creperie to make them for OH but it never caught on.
For Chandeleur several of our club members arrived with plates laden with crepes. enough to feed at least 2 armies 
and at the end of the meeting, drinks were poured and the plates of folded crepes were moved back and forth across the large table we were all sitting at.
No jam, nutella, sugar, lemon.. no nuffink like that.
However it seemed that each Cook had used their own special recipe as all the offerings were slightly different in flavour. Obviously cooked with cinnamon, dark sugar and several other additions which I could almost name.. but no, I failedâŠ
Huh they were all so delicious none of us stopped to figure out what each âsecretâ ingredient might be and each lady smiled happily as we all oooohed and aaaaaahed.
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But you have crepe Suzette, pancakes at a different level 
Well yes, and concoctions with chantilly, beurre salé and so on although perhaps not with the drama of a crepe suzette. But they are not the usual day to day ones.
Our favourite crĂšperie at Capdenac-le-Haut does about twenty different crĂȘpes and even more very good galettes, but not having a sweet tooth, I never get beyond the latter.
Spring is coming - just watched about 200 grues circling on a thermal over a neighbouring field. I feel truly blessed that we live in a part of the world where the cranes fly over.
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Iâve been sitting outside in a garden chair until ten mins ago its 19°C in the sunshine and there were lots of little lizards running about, some butterflies and bees too.
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And the Daffs are out too, a riot in yellow, one of the very few things we actually planted here, the Bluebells will be next, one clump, 2 vertical metres lower than the other, always blooms first by a week or two.
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Going for a walk yesterday evening with our dogs, we parked at the nearby forest entrance, which was blocked by a car with its engine running. A young man was in the car with the radio on, and he was slumped forwards, fast asleep..20 minutes later he was still in the same position, so a bit worried, we banged on the window to check he was ok.No response. What to do?.No answer from the Police Municipale.. Called the sapeurs who arrived, sirens and blue flashing lights., and eventually managed to wake him up and led him, stumbling,.to their van. They must have been suspicious as the Gendarmes were immediately called..We were forbidden from leaving the scene until the police had established how long he had been there etc . Eventually we were allowed home..
We were worried weâd wasted their time.The Sapeurs said we were absolutely right to have called them and thanked us. . Given the involvement of the Gendarmes, the sapeurs were concerned about the chap driving whilst possibly drugged. Most importantly, at the end of the day, the chap is alive, if not particularly well, and wasnât trying to end it all, which was our first concern.. Cheerful news of a sort!
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very cheerful news.. you might well have saved his life and/or prevented an accident âfurther down the roadâ.
the Pompiers have always said theyâd rather be called out (in good faith) and not be needed, than that someone doesnât make that call - with tragic results.
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Know how you felt. In the days before we moved to France for good, we were crossing the channel 4/5 times per year bringing stuff over and holidays etc. One night we got off the Bretagne at Portsmouth after being on her since 10am for the return crossing and our route used to take us up the M27 past Waterlooville, Petersfield etc heading for London. At one part the main road went through a very forested area south of Camberley/Aldershot area where there were no houses when all of a sudden a car sped out of a forest track turning in front of us and then turned again into another nearly causing us to go off the road. Did not think any more about until we saw on the news about a murder in the forest where we had passed through two nights previously and the body had been found right where we had the altercation with that car. We had a quandary and in the end rang the police and told them about our nearly being run off the road and luckily we had seen the make and colour of the car plus the year as it was the old system of one letter prefixing the numbers. Next day two detectives came all the way up to our house for a statement in writing and went away. Found out a couple of weeks later that they had caught the killer and that our info had helped them to find him, it had been a domestic that ended up with murder. Like you George, we really did not know whether we should say anything for fear of being ridiculed but in this case, glad we did.
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Well done, Iâm sure you did the right thing. Itâs something we can all learn from.
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My really cheerful news is that itâs stopped raining 
the winds have dropped and the sun is braving a peek out from behind some light cloud. 
Actually, the clouds are beautiful and reminiscent of some Monetâs.
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Absolutely, could have been a diabetic coma.
I remember seeing an old man slumped over the wheel at polo one time.
I went and found a friend to come with me as I thought he might have had a heart attack.
It turned out he was just fast asleep.
Concerning though.
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Would you have left it if the car engine had not been running? I would have.
Lots of us fall asleep with the radio on and pulling off the road for a kip if feeling tired is a responsible thing to do. But the engine left running would for me have been the factor that would have made me take action.
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I agree, but in the old days before night heaters were invented for lorry cabs youâd have caused a riot at transport cafe parkings. I always tested the wind direction before parking up as in those days all exhausts issued directly under the driversâ window and some died.
And the cheerful news is that you didnât. 
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and the Cheerful News is that there is a new thread about âsleeping in the carâ
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