Hello Dear Reader,
A little share of something I love that is uniquely French.
Bins. When i say bins, I thought I'd mention rubbish in general. The UK is a throw away society, France is so much more measured. Above is the bin for the entire hamlet of ten or so houses and the families generate so little waste. Bread as an example, has no packaging, you just carry it off in your hand. Most packaging is recyclable, goes into a yellow bag and gets turned into something else.
Something else, in the UK, there is rubbish everywhere. People eat on the move, throw rubbish out of cars, allow their bins to overspill and make a mess everywhere. There's a different culture in France and rubbish is a very rare sight. Councils in the UK have made so many cuts that parks, hedges, verges and roadsides are overgrown and weedcovered. Here there's an army of workers keeping the place beautiful. That tells me that taxpayers value their local areas and are prepared to pay for it. I love this about France and I already feel very proud to 'live' here.
On the last note for some time on life here, we left at ten this morning with the tree surgeon cutting down trees.
We're just about to get on the ferry and go back to Cornwall.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx