Diggers

They arrived early one morning. The sounds travelled up from the bridge crossing the rather full and dirty river.

Diggers, trucks and men with spades. They began to dig up the pavements (I mean to say, a mixture of pavement, private paths, gravel and the odd slab of concrete), and across neighbours’ drives they came. We thought a first it was new water as a chap knocked on the door asking to know the location of our water meter (just inside the front door should you need to know) and off he went. Turns out it is new cabling bringing taking the telephone wires that straggle the village underground, and boosting out broadband connection. Unlike some villages though, Cruzy have let them install the cables first, and then, joy of all joys, we will be getting new pavements and new tar on our roads. We drive though Ouveillan with envy as they have nice pavements, lots of parking and smooth roads.

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We have been told it will take 8 months, so we shall live though another summer of drilling and trucks… just like our first when our neighbours' builders drilled and played loud music, and trucks re-doing the road from St Chinian to St Pons thundered though all day. We shall be at the beach if you need us.