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Update : as you already know last week the sudden death of a judge happened in the neighbor’s house. During all this long weekend (Monday was a public holiday in France), I have cherished the hope that the dead was the drum player who was awakening me at 1 or 2 am with a drum solo generously offered to the neighborhood. My hopes have been disappointed today at lunch time when I heard the sound of the drums again. Yesterday somebody dropped in my mailbox a «Filming information». There are many movies shot in this city. This one is a TV series «The Law of X », X being a name changing for every episode. The principle is to have a different guest star playing the role of a lawyer in each episode. The casting is against type. It is very weird to see famous French comedians like Gérard Jugnot or Josiane Balasko in a serious role. Victoria Abril was not bad though, but she has a wider répertoire. I do not know for you, but I would have no confidence at all in a lawyer having the face of a comedian. This time it is the turn of another comedian, Charlotte de Turckeim. Never mind. The paper was saying that due to their «logistic» they were reserving a few parking spots from yesterday 11 pm to Thursday 11 pm and would have to block the street «intermittently». I am fed up, not only by their vocabulary, and I am not alone. Parking spaces are worth gold in the neighborhood. Last time they came in this street, they had omitted to warn people, and the trucks of the pond came during the night to remove the cars. A bit before Christmas they blocked all the parking places on the square down the street to put their trucks. The shopkeepers around screamed and complained that they were losing customers. They responded that they were spending a lot of money in this city, and that they would go elsewhere if people were not satisfied. I am not sure about that : they recruit about 200 bit-part players for 2 or 3 days, but they come with their material, including the restaurant and cook in their trucks, and I would bet that most of the staff is hosted in cheap hotels out of the city. The problem of this production firm is that they act arrogantly as if they were the masters of this city. We have some good film directors coming here and respecting people. This TV series is BS if you ask me ; their deeds should match their words and they should go elsewhere. However I observed a fascinating performance through my windows this morning : one of their trucks was emptying the house of a neighbor on the other side of the street. It is a lawyer’s office, and I would have been the lawyer that I would have refused that. I hope that at least they did not moved her files... I do not know how this woman is good as a lawyer. I met several times her sister in another city. She is an architect, and famous somewhere, to have won a competition to build a vast hall between 2 public buildings. Her project was an aluminium and glass structure that was looking nice. Every element had been pre-cut according to her instructions to be assembled. The problem is that 10 cm were lacking finally. I will not tell you how people can be gross for a little error of 10 cm, and how 10 missing cm can impact the career of an architect. I digressed again, sorry. So, after they removed the furniture from the lawyer’s office, they installed new furniture for their lawyer’s office. I suspect that a lawyer working in a provincial city needs to have ugly furniture in a TV series, because they were really ugly. And because these people were blocking the street for their mov(i)e, the nurse had to walk and was half an hour late. I am asking myself if I should not write to a local newspaper to complain. My last news will perhaps deceive you : my legs are really better now, so I will be less behind my windows, and you will get less news and gossips from me. But do not be worried, more gossips will come : I intend to give you a special news report about the dinner organized for the neigborhood next week.