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Yesterday's weather: hot, hot, hot
The circus came to a village near here yesterday. It isn't the first circus of the season there are several who tour France throughout the summer months.
They usually arrive with a fanfare of hooters, park up in the village square and generally create havoc in the village for 48 hours before moving on to the next village.
Often they will take a van out to smaller communities and to campsites around the village with a tannoy to let everyone know to come to see them at 9pm that evening. Usually there are clowns and acrobats and sometimes a horse or a llama. The one we saw yesterday was just setting off to do it's tannoy advertising. There was a large truck with railings along it's sides and inside were two gorgeous tigers. They were pacing up and down in the truck, which was just big enough for them to manage about ten strides from one end to the other. I'll admit that they looked well fed, their coats were glossy and they looked well cared for, but I wanted to cry for these two beauties who must spend at least two months of the year going from village to village confined to their truck.
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Telford.
With regards to the Tigers, hauling them around the country for "our pleasure" is something that should have stopped decades ago. They do not belong to us or behind bars.
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