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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Regular practise sessions have started every Friday night for the
newly formed Lille Cricket Association. Players meet just
outside Lille at the Decathlon Sports Campus in Villeneuved’Ascq,
and spend the two-hour session honing their cricket
techniques under the watchful eye of Dave Szumowski.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
The long-established clubs at
Bordeaux, Damazan, Eymet and
Saint-Aulaye have been joined
recently by no fewer than eight new clubs,
ranging from Angoulême, Thénac (24)
and Catus (46) down south to the Gers
(two clubs there); and right across to the
Montpellier region via a resurrected
Toulouse and L’Isle-sur-Tarn. And there’s
news of a club in the making in
Carcassonne – who mentioned the
RyanAir effect?
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Armagnac-Bigorre Cricket Club (ABCC),
based in Mirande, provided the opposition
in a 40-overs-a-side game against a Scottish
club who were on a short tour.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Michael Taylor visits the Jardin
d’Hélys-oeuvre, a 30-acre artwork-inprogress
in the eastern Dordogne, and
struggles with a blizzard of visual and
verbal transformations that make Lewis
Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’
look tame
The first surprise awaiting me when I turn
off the D705 just east of the village of Saint-
Médardd’Excideuil, on my way to what
I had been told was a site of domestic artistic creation,’ is a
large blue-and-white 1950-vintage road sign informing me that
I’m entering the grounds of a school for home economics under
the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture. The prefix agri has been
carefully blacked out to make the heading read ‘Ministry of
XXXculture’. A long drive winding through what was once a
domain of rolling meadowland under spreading Lebanon cedars
leads me to a nineteenth century mansion bizarrely fitted-out
with twentieth-century fire escapes. A bottle rack à la Marcel
Duchamp, a large orange men-at-work sign and half a dozen
ancient floor rags hanging limply from a rack complete the
decors.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Plans to build a new mega
structure in Bordeaux, to
ease traffic and improve
civic life are slowly making
their way through the
bureaucratic impasse.
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