Young Buzzard

Just to put a parenthesis on the story of the lens - I hope that this is the end and I won't be boring you with this story for any longer.

I went to the FNAC in Toulouse today - the guy at the after sales looked at me nervously and shook his head as if to say, no, not again!

I said - yep, again! and added that we would be on Tu and not Vous terms soon, as I was there so often with this lens.

Anyway to cut a long story short The FNAC (a shop a bit like HMV + PC WORLD + WHS) came up trumps and within 30 minutes had fixed me up with a new Sigma 150-500mm lens after testing the duff one that I brought back - so a big BRAVO! to the FNAC Toulouse Place Wilson and Portet-sur-Garonne - and their customer service - much appreciated.

So, I thought I'd try and get a similar picture to yesterday, just as a test, of one of the young buzzards - I got this one then came back home quickly as it was roasting hot out and I wanted to check that the lens worked OK.

See it bigger here.

I'll continue to touch wood etc. that it will be ok...

So, back to the music links - here is a French classic by Jean Ferrat, loved by many.

Jean Ferrat (born Jean Tenenbaum, 26 December 1930 - 13 March 2010) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon.

Ferrat was born in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine in 1930.

One of his most poignant songs was "Nuit et Brouillard" - a little sad for here.
Nuit et Brouillard, Night and Fog, was the name of a edict of Adolf Hitler in 1941 (Nacht et Nebel) regarding the sanctions reserved for any opponent of the Reich in the occupied countries.

The decree applied only to those sentenced to death, if the sentence wasn't applied within one week, the condemned were deported to Germany and the Reich reserved the right to give no information about the arrested people.

Ferrat's father, joined the French army as soon as the war started in 1939, but after the rapid defeat of France, he was forced to wear the yellow star, but didn't go to the Free French Zone as he was a French citizen and his wife was not Jewish.

He was arrested and put in the infamous internment camp in Drancy, Paris in the summer of 1942, before being deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in September of the same year.

Jean dropped out of school to support the family at this point, where Jean and the rest of the family were hidden by militant communists, which formed his political views that were to be his guiding light for the rest of his life.

Today's music Link is Jean Ferrat - La Montagne