Déconfinement : Lifting Lockdown. There’s light at the end of the tunnel! Prime Minister, Eduoard Philippe, yesterday revealed the government’s plan for easing us back in to a certain level of normality, albeit much altered from what we knew before.

Picasso’s Guernica, McCrae’s In Flanders’ Fields, even Newton’s discovery of gravity… times of hardship give rise to great creativity and we’re sure that our current situation is no different! Each week we publish YOUR artistic offerings based on a chosen theme.

Where a Bank holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday, many small businesses will ‘faire le pont’ (make a bridge) and take Friday or Monday off too to ;make a long weekend. This rarely applies to large shops, supermarkets etc, many of whom no longer close for most of the public holidays.

Mountain Mama, Jenny Rhodes, perhaps best known for her winter snow reports, lives up in the beautiful Pyrénées mountains in the town on Les Angles. Here she shares her thoughts on life in the mountains during lockdown.