A pair of hoopoes arrived yesterday morning, fresh and crested from Africa, and they noisily sussed out a hole in the south-facing stone wall next to the garage. So the insect population must be stirring with the warmer April weather.
The wall in question is a vestige of a house which was abandoned in the sixties, and which was inhabited by the Pompard family. Local legends still abound about the nineteen children and the abject poverty, or about the troglodytic father who every morning drank warm, hair-tainted lait de chèvre straight from the goat via a recycled pot de chambre. More about the Pompards anon.
Upopa Epops/Hoopoe/Huppe faciée
Lexique:
Lait de chèvre; très bon pour les gens qui souffrent d'allergies. Le fromage de chèvre est très bon aussi si vous aimez l'odeur des chaussettes.
Pot de chambre; Avant-garde "En-Suite Facilities".
[Bon appétit. Ed]
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