A l`affiche / What`s on - Doustre et Plateau des Étangs

A l'affiche / What's on
in and around La Roche-Canillac
N° 7
APRIL
EDITORIAL
Les Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - April
If you wish to help us make our litle Corner of Paradise more lively, please
forward our Newsleters to any of your friends or acquaintances who you think
might be interested.
Thank you also for spreading the word about our forthcoming Watercolour and
Sculpture Workshops - see below and atachment by separate mail. These
workshops are open to all, beginners or advanced, watercolorists and sculptors;
we also have accommodaton available for those who are coming from afar.
Watercolour workshop
6th - 10th May
with Paul Stangroom
Sculpture workshop
22nd - 26th July
with Kerstin Lindstahl
The cinema showing of The Artist on 9th March proved a great success. More than
forty of us gathered in the main drawing room at the Chateau at Beaufort. All our
thanks again to Marc and Maria Bajer, and also to Ernesto Cordeiro who so kindly
helped us set up the event and welcome the guests.
The next movie, also on the topic of art, will be shown on the 4th of May in the
same locaton. In order to cover expenses (flm rights, drinks, etc…) a small
contributon of 4 € will be requested.
To illustrate each newsleter we have chosen miniatures from the 15th Century calendar,
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
April : This month's paintng depicts an engagement party taking place on an early spring
day. In the forefront on the lef a couple are exchanging rings in front of two witnesses
while on the right two elegant ladies are shown picking fowers. Behind the group, set
back a litle, one can see a court jester.
(from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by Jean Dufournet)
This month's Haiku
In my hut this spring There is nothing
There is everything !
EXHIBITION in BRIVE
Musée Edmond Michelet
4 rue Champanater
CAMPS d'INTERNEMENT
DU LIMOUSIN (1940 -1944)
Every day except Sundays
& Bank holidays
10am to 12pm, 2pm to 6pm
Enquiries : 05 55 74 06 08
museemichelet.brive.fr
On 29th April at 8.30 pm
Talk by the historian G. Perlier
Musée Labenche, 26 bis bd J. Ferry
Free entry
Yamaguchi Sodô (1642 - 1716)
ASTRONOMY FOR ALL
in NONARDS
The Associaton Ma petite Académie en
campagne organises a festve day around
scientfc themes
Saturday 4th May
from 10.30 am to midnight
-observaton on the telescope
-organic food
-actvites for everyone and for all ages, etc.
Free entry, enquiries and meal reservatons :
05 55 20 17 88
HISTORY OF ART CONFERENCE in TULLE
A MAGIC FLUTE in BRIVE
Produced by Peter Brook
Friday 26th April at 6,30 pm
In the auditorium of the Médiathèque Eric Rohmer
Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)
Entrance fee, contact : 05 55 20 21 48
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th Avril at 8.30pm
A free adaptaton of Mozart's opera by
P. Brook, F. Krawczyk et M-H Estenne
At the Theatre de Brive
Sports
The « Tulle – Brive - Nature » races : on Sunday 7 th April 2013
Trails (36 & 12 km), Biking (30 & 55 km), Cyclo-cross (31 & 73 km), Walking (12, 24 & 36 km), Power walking (12 km)
between Tulle and Brive. Various actvites. Contact : htp://www.latullebrivenature.fr/
Plant Life
Calendar
-Dig up the earth around your rose bushes and add compost
-Plant support stakes (afer 15 th April) and plant dahlia tubers and summer bulbs
-Split up the ornamental grasses
-Graf your fruit trees
-Treat the fruit trees and rose bushes again with Boullie Bordelaise and sulphur
-16th April at 2.30 pm Mairie de Saint-Amand Le Pett : meetng of the associaton Les Petits Jardiniers du Limousin
Topics will include: ground-covers and clematses. For more informaton : www.jardiniers-du-limousin.webs.com
DISCOVER
THE GREY HERON
It is 90 cm high and has a wing span of 185 cm. It is a very tall, grey, white and black bird.
Grey back, and black end to the wings. White head and very long neck. Black
mark from the eye to the end of the long crest. Long, dagger-shaped beak
and tall legs.
Occasional migrator: can be observed all year around.
Habitat: close to water, including by the sea-side.
Feeds on fsh, frogs, small mammals and birds, snakes, molluscs and insects.
Having watched its preys for a long tme, it stabs them with its beak.
Distnctve features : Slow and heavy fight, with bent neck, legs stretched to
the back and rounded wings. Nests in large groups at the top of very high
trees.
In La Roche-Canillac, we have a regular which lives near a small private pond
in Lavergne and frequently fies over the ruisseau des Vergnes or the
Doustre near the Moulin de Larchat.
These informatons were found in Evelyne Fusilier's guide (available at the Mairie of la Roche-Canillac).
SALON DU LIVRE DE CUISINE : FESTIN D'AUTEURS
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th April
At the gymnase de Beynat – free entry
Unique Cookery Book Fair in the Limousin; it is held in the heart of Corrèze, in an
area which is proud of its rural heritage. The Fair is an invitaton to get of the
beaten track of urban centres and to come and discover a "Corrèze gourmande"
where people are hospitable and life enjoyable.
Writers and their books are at the centre of this Fair, but the organisers favour a
close coordinaton with the public and the sharing of this "devouring passion"
which is the cookery book.
Carl Friedrich Deiker, c. 1875
FOIRE EXPO d'ARGENTAT
Sunday 14th April from 9am to 7pm
Place Joseph Faure
Businesses of the Pays
Vallée de la Dordogne
Corrézienne. More than 70
shopkeepers and artsans
will
come
and
demonstrate their knowhow to visitors.
Numerous actvites for
everyone:
Merry-goround, make-up sessions,
basket-weaving,
drinks
and concert… Free entry
Recipe : Seven-hour Shoulder of Lamb
Perfect for a family Easter lunch or dinner. For lunch, cook it the night before - about 5 hours - and the next day trim of the fat and cook for a
further 2 hours. For dinner, start cooking at about 2pm - but in any case take the lamb out of the fridge a couple of hours before you cook it.
Ingredients (serves 6-8) : 1 shoulder of lamb - about 2 kilos, rosemary, 4 medium sized onions cut into large chunks, 2 garlic bulbs, 3 carrots (and 3
parsnips if you wish), 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 250ml dry white wine, salt and pepper.
Preparation : Heat up the oven at 180C. Rub some oil, salt and pepper into the meat. Place the rest of the oil with the onions into a large casserole
pot with a lid and put the lamb on top. Brown in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Turn the oven down to 110C. Add the rosemary, garlic and wine.Cook
for another two hours with the lid on, bastng once in a while. Add the carrots (and parsnips) sliced lengthways and cook for a further 4 hours or so.
The lamb should fall of the bone; if you need a knife, it’s not cooked enough.
Serve with mashed potato or, even easier and delicious, with a couscous aux epices (e.g. Tipiak)
Other sectons will be added according to your/our ideas: For sale, donatons, exchanges, etc.
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The newsleter is writen by Patricia Clement and Annie Franklin and will be produced monthly.