who are we?

The powers that be are changing our regions' name from the Languedoc to something as yet unspecified. You can vote on a range of possible names in the local rag -

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/11/21/1995920-choisissez-le-nom-de-votre-future-region.html#sondage-771

Any duck lovers' out there? Spotted a pair I've never seen before, quite difficult to see in these pix as indeed they are in real life. If their little white flash didnt bob and down they'd be invisible on the water.

 

Here is a snap of what greeted me this morning, over last nights' washing up - a little scorpion and a wiry spider clasped in a death embrace. I guess they got each other. Aint nature wonderful.