How to give the wrong impression!

[Alice Abbott]

I have just come to pick up my laptop after it has been charging all morning in the neighbours barn. This usually involves nipping though a hedge but as I was taking the wheelbarrow today I walked the long way round, about 50 yards along a tiny lane where three cars a day passing through is a major traffic event. During this detour into the real world I managed to bump into our mayor walking his dog. He looked at me very strangely, raised his hat (really!) muttered "Bonjour Madame..." and scuttled off. I've just realised why!

I took the wheelbarrow because I wanted to take a large pot of green tomatoes with me and use the neighbours' power point to use my "whizzer" and chop them up. Lazy I know but I DO miss using my electric gadgets. So, I had a wheelbarrow, a large cast iron pot, an electric whisker, two dead rabbits (a present from a neighbour which I found on the doorstep this morning and which were on their way to the freezer) a small child sitting in the barrow with her face painted like a cat who was miaowing and shaking a big jar of milk (butter making). I was wearing pyjamas and Mack's jacket (it's cold!), wellington boots (wet grass) had my hair in braids with a cardboard head dress complete with chicken feathers (Pia thought I should be a Native American today) and Japanese geisha face paint (this went on before she decided I should be a Native American and while we were doing the cat face - face-painting is her latest obsession).

Poor man now thinks he has a family of lunatics on his hands!

[Milims]

Being french perhaps he thought you were in-Seine! Actually it sounds like perfectly normal behaviour to me - it's all the "ordinary" people who are potty!

[Green Aura]

And why no pictures?

[Millymollymandy]

That's just brilliant! Your clothing shouldn't have raised any eyebrows in rural France but the face painting and headdress as well are classic! I would love to see photos!

[Green Aura]

I see a whole new trend in avatars

[Thomzo]

How wonderful. At least you know they'll all be talking about you.

I went to Marlborough today with a great friend of mine. She'd decided to wear the most amazing pair of boots with two inch platforms and 10 inch heels (I am not kidding). The only problem is that there are loads of cobbles in Marlborough and she ended up having to hang on to my arm so that she didn't trip over. I was wearing a jacket that looks like a sheep's fleece so we must have looked a great pair. We certainly did get a lot of strange looks but we obviously cheered up a lot of people.

Keep it up

Zoe

[homegrown]

Yes pictures are a must and entered in photo comp

[Martina]

I bet you looked great Alice. At least you will not be forgotten.
I second everyone here; we NEED photos!

Martina

[Rosendula]

Photos! I want a video reconstruction I read this soon after waking up (never a pleasant thing to do on a Sunday morning), and it's really cheered me up. It may well be a thread I revisit whenever I feel a bit down.

[ajs88]

i do wonder what the rural french make of all these wacky ish families that pop up in their villages

that reminds me of when i was little and my dad picked me up from my friends house, when he arrived we both atacked him with face paint sticks, a cup of tea later we left to go home and on the way a little boy took one look at my father and started screaming and crying. when we got home he looked in the mirror and saw that he looked like he had been in a horrific car crash thanks to our face painting

[Alice Abbott]

I wish! Our camera seems to be giving us a hard time. It only works on one particular sort of rechargeable battery and for some reason we have misplaced one of them at the moment. Anyway, I'm not sure I want to have a picture of myself dressed like that online!

Actually I forgot the killer line on my original post. As we bumped into him I had just got to the line "How you gonna make a dream come true?" from South Pacific at full volume. Poor guy, I've seen him drive past the end of our drive a couple of times this weekend, peering up to make sure no more lunatics are on the loose.

[Green Aura]

Get that b+b up and running Alice. What with the menus at your house and the am-dram you'll be booked out forever

[MuddyWitch]

I'm with Rosendula on this: your thread has really brightened my drear Monday! Thank-you for sharing.

MW