Escaped cow

As I climbed out of the woods, I heard a tinkling bell and saw an unaccompanied cow wandering down the road. It sloped off into a roadside field and started grazing. I thought I had better walk up to M. Montagne's ramshackle farm and let him know (see extra).  He was grateful for the heads up. In the afternoon I had a meeting with the new departmental representative of the Fondation du Patrimoine to see off they might be interested in helping us fund a project to restore heating to the church and make the original rather beautiful radiators work again. The next stage is to approach a heating engineer to see if the original heating installation could still be viable. The hundred year old boiler would certainly need to be replaced.