Saturday, 24 October 2026
Un arbre en automne
Monday, 19 October 2026
L'automne au Parc Lafontaine
Saturday, 16 May 2026
Whatever happened to the local May Fayre?
Every year in May, we have a fayre held in the biggest park of our little town. It's on Saturday, usually the last Saturday of May. But this year, we have nothing. For some reason, it stopped. No explanation has been given, as far as I know. My wife and I checked on social media, in the local news, nothing has been said about this cancellation. They just haven't advertised it this year. I was already seriously down that the autumn fair has been cancelled this year (and maybe permanently), this is getting worse, adding salt to the wounds. It's just really depressing how special events I look forward to all year just disappear.
Sunday, 8 March 2026
Farewell to the local autumn fayre
I learned some sad news recently, which I wanted to blog about: as you may know, there is a local carnival held every year in September, the third or fourth Saturday of the month, in the biggest park in town. I blogged about it often before, like here. To me, it's like an officious autumn fayre. Sadly, for whatever reason (not sure if they were made public) the organisers cannot organise it this year, so there will be no local September carnival. No autumn fayre. This is one of the public event in our community I look forward to the most in the year. I'm really gutted.
Saturday, 27 September 2025
Bat House
Friday, 26 September 2025
Un parc gentrifié
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Le Parc Chopin modernisé
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Un bateau dans le parc
Sunday, 6 July 2025
Les promenades au Parc Urbain
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Giant Chessboard
Cadran solaire
Monday, 30 June 2025
La rivière au Parc Urbain
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Un paon dans un parc
Friday, 27 June 2025
Le Parc Urbain après la pluie
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Coming Fayre
Sunday, 23 February 2025
Camel Trophy Jeep
Monday, 11 November 2024
Poppies at the Gate
Monday, 30 September 2024
"El Jeepo"
Sunday, 15 September 2024
Tank Trivia
Saturday, 14 September 2024
Officious Autumn Fayre
Today, if everything goes well, we will go to the local carnival. It's officially called a carnival, but it truly is a fayre and, as it is set in the middle of September, generally in or around the equinox, I consider it an autumn fayre (well of course). It is in a park and, when the weather is right, like it should be today, it feels so perfectly autumnal. We have been going there every September since we started living here. I think the only exceptions were when we were invited at the birthday of one of Wolfie's friends. Thankflly, not this year. Today, we will go with some friends, as we often do. I love going there, it is one of my favourite activities in September, a special event that marks the arrival of my favourite season.














