Firstly, what’s happening with our plans for the year?
Nigel explains:
Members will have gathered that OUSWF events gazetted for this spring and early summer have had to be postponed.
As you may recall, some of us planned to meet next week for an informal lunch in Prayssas (Lot-et-Garonne). Further details of the 6 May trip to Gaillac arranged by Committee member Chris Boddington were to have come round later this month. We now hope to stage that event at a later date.
Question marks must still hang over meetings further down the line, among them a possible visit in late June to the Gironde Château Malromé (33490 St-André-des-Bois), some 10 km N. of Langon, eventual home to Adèle Toulouse-Lautrec, mother of the painter Henri.
We are reasonably confident (or, at least, there are those who would have us so) that we shall be able to hold our AGM in early September at the Restaurant l’Atelier in 24560 Issigeac. We shall see.
Meanwhile, we shall of course keep the membership posted in the light of developments in the present health emergency.
– The Committee
Furthermore:
Just in case bureaucratic French is a challenge, thanks to Marion, here is a translation of the current set of rules concerning the confinement:
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Essential professional activity that cannot be conducted from home;
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Purchase of food, collection of social benefit, or cash withdrawal;
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Visit to a doctor (if you are unable to consult him/her over the phone), to the chemist, or for ongoing treatment for a long-term illness;
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Child-minding and family assistance, but only in cases of extreme necessity;
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Brief physical exercise, limited to one hour and to within a 1-kilometre radius of your home, either alone or with others who share your home, or to walk your dog;*
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Summons to a court; or
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Participation in community activities, only if invited the appropriate authority.
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