… getting on my wick right now. It’s still raining outside.
Luckily the rain did manage to hold off for a few hours while Marianne and I went to survey the village of Bussieres where Marianne will be holding her walk next Wednesday
.First place that you visit in any of these little rural villages scattered around the countryside is the church and here at Bussieres, the church was another one that merited a visit.
Again, it’s an early church that has been expanded and enlarged over the centuries but because it’s in such a tight situation, the expansion has had to take place in all sorts of unusual directions and unusually there is no north chapel.
It was another one of these churches that was visited in 1842 by the same person who visited the church at St Maurice près Pionsat and, once again, he considered the church here to be of no merit.
You can tell by the photo here that quite clearly that he didn’t have any idea of what he was talking about, because this is another magnificent little structure well-worth a visit.
The old school here at Bussieres is well-worth a visit too. It’s one of those that was opened following the “Universal Education” decrees of the 1880s and although it’s now converted into housing, it has a very interesting history.
Not because of the building, but because of one of the teachers here. Back in the inter-war period he organised the children of the school to prepare some kind of communal diary of daily life in their homes and in the area and it’s become something of a classic of rural life here in the Auvergne in that period and is used extensively in research.
Back here, I decided that I would put the second coat of paint on the woodwork on the lean-to outside. So I cleaned the brush, washed out the pot, filled it with the paint, climbed up the scaffolding, and then it started raining.
However I wanted it done today at any cost so an hour later, at 19:10, soaking wet that I was, that’s the woodwork on the lean-to all finished. And A good job it is too. That wood treatment from LIDL isn’t ‘arf some good stuff.
Next time the weather is half-decent for working outside (weekends excepted of course) I’ll dismantle the solar shower fitment outside the lean-to and then paint the facade with the pale yellow stone paint.
It should look quite pretty with that.
