French make English Breakfast

A small group of Twinners have just returned after a long weekend in Brulon, the town twinned with Tattershall & District, in the Sarthe region of France.
Members had been invited to share in the celebrations to mark Bastille Day and to join in the festivities to open new facilities at the lake and refurbished town hall (Mairie). These included joining in the several parades, enjoying various displays from mountain bikers, dancers and jazz to the new tepees near the camp site complete with ‘Indians’ and a wolf!
The French friends had asked the members to help at an English Breakfast which was planned as a fund raiser. They gallantly rose to the occasion cooking sausages and bacon on a barbecue, scrambling eggs and heating baked beans on small gas rings.
150 participants enjoyed the English Breakfast during the morning, which was good to see as English food is not always appreciated by other nationalities!
Old friendships were renewed and new ones formed during the weekend and it is hoped to take a larger group next year, probably in September, when a coach party is planned.
The Twinning is open to all in the Coningsby and Tattershall area , especially in nearby villages which are not twinned. There are members in Kirkby on Bain and Mareham le Fen.
New members are always welcome, knowledge of French is not vital, just an interest in other people and their way of life.

Meetings are held in the Fortescue Arms, Tattershall, on the first Monday of the month at 7.30pm.