Spring and its side effects

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It is a public holiday today in France. I went to do some shopping in one of the rare supermarkets opened. At the end of my street there were several CRS (Republican Company for Security, a kind of cops ensuring public order at demonstrations and riots, their best friend is their billy club) blocking the access to a square where the préfet was giving a speech. I thought that they would ask me to open my bag, but no, the one blocking the door of the public garden that I had to cross was calling his girlfriend and was sending hugs to her. I would not have thought that a CRS could also be a poet whispering sweet nothings to a girl. It is spring ! And a very warm spring. More than 30°C expected today, it did not happened on May 8th since 1976. In the street at the bottom of the public garden I saw something that I had also never seen, a little sister of poor people wearing a white bucket hat over her veil. It could have been my best photo of the year, but I did not dared to do it. Respect for religion ? Shyness ? I cannot tell. Well, it is a warm spring ! When I was queuing at the cashdesk, I heard behind me «It is a 1 liter bottle ?» I had a quick look. The bottle was a bottle of «Wine from Aude». It makes a very good white vinegar to use as a softener in a washing machine. And it also fixes colors. The guy asking it was a bit worried, and I can understand that, nobody has ever seen a good wine sold in a 1 liter bottle. «Yes, but you will taste it another day, it needs to be served very fresh» said the other guy. The French cousin of Billy Jo Jim Bob was wearing a Tshirt of the Paris-Saint-Germain soccer club. The other one -- maybe his brother-in-law ? -- seemed reassured. And Billy Jo, who was buying several packs of merguez (a mutton spiced sausage from North-Africa), said that he had to prune a cherry tree for the BBQ. Poor cherry tree ! I am a nut. Just heard at the radio that the French finals of soccer was tonight. Paris Saint-Germain vs Les Herbiers, a small club in Vendée. Billy Jo Jim Bob was wearing a fashionable T-shirt. I heard a guy with a Northern Parisian accent saying how wonderful it was, maybe some players from Les Herbiers had never visited Paris ? Ja, ja, ja, if he had ever seen the Atlantic Ocean on the Vendée shores a day of storm he would not make a superiority complex. I definitely support David against Goliath. The sun shines on my windows. It is spring. I am going to do a bicyle ride, no offence but do not expect a comment soon, it is spring.