Well, it makes a change from fiddler on the roof.
There is a "scrapyard challenge" once a year, that two of our neighbours participate in. The idea is to weld a piece of artwork together from various bits of scrap metal. This year they decided to make a scorpion. And on "heritage day" (journée de patrimoine) the one of the team who is a "cordiste" (steeplejack) decided that the scorpion would look good on the wall of the local church tower. Well why not?
I have to tell you that the ugly wheels on the scorpion did come off, but I don't have a picture.
He had a good audience too, since the heritage day tradition in the throbbing metropolis of St Pierre sur Erve is to fire up the communal bread oven and invite people to bring their pizzas, bread, pies etc., and have a communal cook-together and meal. Preceded by a piss-up in the local bistrot, of course, and washed down with plenty of wine. It was a good evening.
3 comments:
It all sounds like a lot of fun :-)
I wonder if the scorpion put people off visiting church...
Why is the Church roof blue?
Hi Doonhammer, there is a tarpaulin on the church roof because, along with many other buildings in the area, its roof got trashed by a recent hailstorm. There's enough damaged roofs to keep the local roofers busy through 2024, apparently.
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