Charity Event for Cancer Support France

The Charity's are for Cancer Support France (and other NGO's) 
will be on 

17th May from 11.00 am onwards. 

The Venue is at A Montagne- Chemin De Montage - Couloumé Mondebat. 32160.

The entry is free!!

There will be live music through out the day, a variety of stalls/stands. 
Psychic Counselor for Reiki Healing & Tarot. Jewelry, Women's Clothing, Books, Cakes, Jam's, Wine, Greetings Cards, Oils, Plants & hopefully much more. We will have fun stalls for adults & children. Face Painting, Table Tennis, Petanque, Tug Of War, & much more.

There will be a raffle and an Auction. So far for Auction: 
Fabulous painting from local Artist, Jim & Rob for a day's work 
2 x meals for 2 in local restaurants 
A stair of Fire Wood , Cases of Wine & 'hopefully' more to follow.

For food:  Paella, Salad, Chips, Burgers & Hot Dogs. Soft Drinks, Wine & possibly Beer.

The organizers would be grateful to anyone who would like to be part of this event, in helping & or setting up their own stalls (free of charge) to sell & promote their own products, be it vegetables, Jams, Arts & Crafts etc. 

So long as they are prepared to donate a 'generous' percentage of their profit to the Charities. 
The organizers would also be grateful for donations of Raffle & Auction prizes.
This event is organized by members of the LLC.

For any more informations please  
contact ONLY:  06 877 898 70

Le Salon des métiers d'art 2014 in Plaisance 16 - 18 May 2014

We would like to inform you of the art and craft exhibition in Plaisance on 16-18th May 2014:

Le Salon des métiers d'art 2014 aura lieu du 16 au 18 mai à la salle polyvalente de Plaisance

For more information please contact:

Le recrutement des artisans d'art créateurs pour le salon 2014 est en cours contactez nous au

06 70 60 06 20 ou par mail:mjo.chauvin@orange.fr

Book choice April 2014

The book for April is on Thursday 17th April 2014, 2.30 at the usual venue reading

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon MacGregor.




Erica Wagner in The Times, was the first published review: 

“McGregor takes his time. This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of the city, is strongly reminiscent of Auden’s Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society: here are ‘Sung sirens, sliding through the streets, streaking blue light from distress to distress, the slow wail weaving urgency through the darkest of the dark hours..’ The writing in the rest of the novel moves from moment to moment in a way that recalls To The Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway: it charts with confidence and subtlety the slight shifts of emotion that can change relationships with seismic force… 
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is a dream of a novel. It has the slow-motion hyperclarity of the images that fill our heads in sleep; its liquid prose is precise enough to draw time nearly to a stop, to stretch out moments and describe the spaces between them. It is a novel that is “about” hardly anything at all, and in this very modesty its ambition is revealed.”

We had a very pleasant book club meeting on March 20th, 2014 sitting out in the warm sunshine discussing 
The 100 year old man by Jonas Jonasson

   

Everyone enjoyed this book for its amusing, sometimes incredible tales and life experiences of Alan, the 100 yr old man.   A couple of people, who weren’t so enamoured with it at first, persevered and ended up enjoying the book.   
It was clever how one meeting seemed to lead on to yet another incredible meeting often giving a good insight into some of the leaders of the 20th century. 
And it had a happy ending which seems hard to find nowadays!

The book for May 2014 is on Thursday 15th May, same time and place:

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson 
when she will be joining us!

The June 2014 book was chosen from Viv’s selection of Dutch authors:  
It’s The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs and the meeting is on Thursday June 19th

 

The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant children-three identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte, the woman who is hired to care for them, begins to suspect that the triplets-and the good doctor- aren't quite what they seem. As the villagers become increasingly suspicious, the story of Dr. Hoppe's past begins to unfold, and the shocking secrets that he has been keeping are revealed. A chilling story that explores the ethical limits of science and religion, 
The Angel Maker is a haunting tale in the tradition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. Brought to life by internationally bestselling author Stefan Brijs, this eerie tale promises to get under readers' skin.

For any more information please check our bookclub page on this blog.

Dates for your Diary APRIL 2014

Ladies Lunch Club  - 

Dates for your Diary 

April 2014:

Tuesday 1st April:	The Grand Budapest Hotel, film in VO at Nogaro Cinema
Sunday 6th April:	August – Osage County, film in VO at Nogaro Cinema, 8.30pm
Tuesday 8th April:	Ladies Lunch at The Commerce in Nogaro
Saturday 12th April:	BLOOPS clothes sale at Marciac, contact Gaye Piper 05 62 70 81 38
Sunday 13th April:	Gersabelles Singing Concert at l’eglise deTillac, 5pm, free entrance
Sunday 13th April:	Vide Grenier & Flower Market at Laujuzan
Sat & Sun 19th & 20th:	Exhibition of Minerals & Fossils, The Foyer at Reans
Sunday 20th April:	Arts, Crafts & Bio plants & products The Foyer, Reans, Sale, 10am-7pm,
Sunday 20th April:	Flower Show/Sale at Gondrin
Monday 21st April:	Vide Grenier & Flower Market at Castelnau d’Auzan
Sat & Sun 26th & 27th:	Flower Market at Fources

Here is a link for Vide Greniers : http://brocabrac.fr/index.php?dept=32
Details correct at time of publishing this list