Here’s a quick round-up of what’s in our local newspaper today, so you can see what you’re missing if you live anywhere else.

The big story is Saturday night’s storm, which has left many homes, gardens and crops devastated. That doesn’t surprise me – it was like a dam bursting here. The centre of somewhere called Oyré (of which I have never heard) was flooded by a great river of mud which swept away a car. In places, 70 mm. of rain fell during this ferocious storm that arrived very suddenly, without warning.

At nearby Le Vigeant motor racing circuit, the 14th “Collecters’ cars against cancer” meet took place, and fortunately the weather held good. More than 1,000 prestige cars were on display – among them Bugattis, Venturis, Aston-Martins, Maseratis, Austin-Healeys – and over 400 Ferraris.

A man led police to the site in a forest where he had buried his wife seven years ago. He has confessed to her murder.

The 50th anniversary of the Limousin-Poitou-Charentes-Correze naturist club will be celebrated on 7th and 8th June at the naturist centre at Château-Larcher. (I hope the weather has improved by then – it’s tipping down again.)

Sundry conflagrations all over the show were thwarted by the Pompiers.

The monthly meeting of Châtellerault’s stamp collectors will take place on 4th June, and there are still a few seats available for the organised coach trip to Paris.

And then there’s the kangaroo that was seen several times last September at Saint Secondin, and then disappeared, presumed dead. But suddenly, last Monday, up he popped again, to the very great astonishment of two men in a car. The animal was quite relaxed and composed, in very good health, and remained for half an hour, giving the men time to phone their families to come and see the unusual sight. The strangest thing is that nobody has reported losing one of the animals, so its origin is a total mystery.