Thursday 14 June 2012

Crotte de Mouton.


The preparations for Reminiac’s summer fete are gathering pace.

Another meeting was held yesterday to discuss the games / activities.

As well as the traditional ‘palet’ and ‘sabot’ games two new items have been proposed.
Tattoos. Christine, has volunteered her services to draw / paint temporary tattoos. Fantastic idea… the children will love it !!..

The second proposal concerns the  first tombola prize, the sheep. The sheep is being delivered to the village green at 8.00am. I hadn’t realized that this next game is a very traditional game at summer fetes all over Brittany. The sheep will be penned in a square area and the grass within the pen will be marked with chalked squares. The object of the game is to guess which squares will be ‘crotte’ free when the sheep is given to his new owner at 6.00pm.

I am sure I will never get to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the French culture !!

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