OK so today’s post is going to be a bit more on the gentle side compared to our Parisian adventures up to now, for today we stayed in Sacy. We invited Hermine to do a bit of yoga with us. It turns out she is EXTREMELY good at the tree pose. No wonder since she used to be a tightrope walker. In fact she still is. There is a tightrope set up in the barn and apparently it’s “just like riding a bike, you never forget.” That’s a party trick we will try to get to her perform at the BBQ on Friday!
This afternoon was all about completely disastrous sound recording. We set off for the forest to capture some lush woodland sounds only to find the combine harvesters out in force, making a right old racket up and down the wheat fields. Cheers for that. So we ventured off in the other direction to capture the distant church bells. Only to find the sugar beet plant giving off an annoying hum. Then we tried to record the birds tweeting, but they seemed to all bugger off at the sight of our dead cat microphone cover. Scaredy-cats. We did come across a nest of bees on the side of a house so we captured a good bit of buzzing from that – good practice for our upcoming bee encounter tomorrow!
We got back to the chateau to the frightening sight of Hermine wearing goggles and wielding a chainsaw, attacking the bushes. She is trying to get the place looking good for Saturday when the village will descend upon the chateau to hear the British artists bastardise their beautiful language right before their eyes (and ears) at the ‘artist talk.’ Yes, that’s right. Our artist talk, in French. Sacre bleu!
Right, best go. We are currently making ice cubes from rose wine (Debbie) and lager (Julie) in an attempt to endure the upcoming heat wave. We will report back on the success of these tomorrow!
