loaves and courgettes

nice courgette story, steve, here's one from our local organic butcher (3 mins down from crillon and 40 mins up!) while i take a break from filling:
i went in to get the old sossies for the barB and informed our lovely ex-local butcher that we had moved to bedoin. he asked me when we would be having our 'cremaillere'. Since i did not know what this meant i asked him, and he informed me that it was when you get your oven in your new house and you have a big party where everyone drinks lots of pastis and sleeps with each other's wives. could he come to ours?, he asked. i said "yes, so long as you bring your 'saucisses'. because of the silent s in the plural of sausages this could easily have been taken for singular. His response was a wry raise of the eyebrow and "I never go anywhere without my sausage"
Now we have our oven, is it time for the cremaillere, I wonder?
back to filling.
rx