Five days without telephone or internet connection was hard to cope with especially when we knew the cause. Loggers arrived just a few days before to cut down and lay waste to the woods up the winding road to our house. If only they would log properly, cleaning up and replanting, but it does not seem to be the way of it here.
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We had read a letter in the Connexion from some one in the Dordogne saying exactly the same thing. So not only did they snap the telephone lines on a Friday afternoon but they blocked of the tiny road with great lorries refusing to move and being quite aggressive with any one who complained. We have managed to get them to put a sign at the bottom of the hill to say it is blocked but they seem incapable of putting one at the top to stop poor folk going down . Their shouts of ' recule' when you have to back up and round bends with a sheer drop on one side, have not gone down well with us and the neighbours. One family got stuck driving with a remorque and to be honest I always weave an erratic path when backing up. Malc's photo gives you an idea of the devastation and our telephone line is still under those logs somewhere!
