This climbing rose on growing up one of our perimeter walls. We had to put the mesh behind it when we had cows grazing in the field next door to save them snacking on the flowers. But as you can see, we did manage to rescue them!! Just hundreds of tiny buds - so will be as pretty as a picture for a while.

Must stop now and go and get lunch ready for the workers!!!

So now we are building up the walls of the cellar . . . .

And so back to work!!

We also went to a small town just north of Limoges called Oradour sur Glane. A truly moving experience for all of us.

This place was completed anihalated by two hundred German SS on 10th June 1944 and 642 of the 648 people in the community at the time were shot and burned and the place itself was raised to the ground by fire. Included the murder of 193 children. One lady and five young people survived.

In the early nineteen fifties General de Gaulle visited the place and it was decided to leave Oradour sur Glane exactly as it was as a memorial to the people who had lost their lives there and to all the other people in France who had lost their lives during the Second World War.

As a memorial, but also as a reminder of man's inhumanity to man, in the hope of there being no repeats of such savagery.

So far we do not seem to be learning, but the memorial remains.

A new Oradour has grown up closeby and is now a thriving town of two thousand people, many of whom are related to those who lost their lives.

After all that hard work it was decided that we could take a day off!! We went to the local market to buy olives, cheese, cherries and paella for supper!!

We also went to a Porcelain factory near Limoges. Porcelain is Limoges most famous production and is quite, quite beautiful. We took a short tour of the factory floor to watch adn learn about the process and then admired the finished results in the shop and did just a little shopping.

And so on this day we made seventy-seven cement mixer loads of concrete to make the base floor of the cellar!!! It took 'the team' just over three hours!! We were pretty impressed - we hope you are too!!

Once you have dug out a big hole you have to start filling it in again!!! the little spots you can see are little piles of concrete making supports for the strong metal mesh which goes under the concrete base.