Shand Dufau Wedding

Old Shand and his longterm companion, Sylvie Dufau, were wed over the ten day period beginning the 6th August, 1998. A truly grand event it was. The festivities began in Dampierre-en-Yvelines and migrated to Mauléon. Oh yeah, France.

The event was destined to be represented as many, many bits - the wedding page appearing well in advance (except on Tuesdays). In some sense the '96 Housebot Adventure was a preparatory anthropological exercise, in some sense it was just another excuse to drink in France.

I will not attempt a complete coverage of the event - Mark has collected everything from the disposal cameras provided for the luncheon guests to the retinal scans of local wildlife, and is busily classifying it. I do, however, have lots of stuff.

The ceremony itself took place in the Mayor's office, complete with Japanese and Basque music. We had to make do with the stand-in as it was August and everyone, even the Mayor, doesn't work. It was more of a legal contract with the town to be good and married.

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And then there was ...

[ Stuff missing in action. So many bits, so little time. ]

And I got to visit Paris Again ... Also ...