They giveth, and they taketh away

Before/during:

Digging up the road surface, in order to lay a new one...

Shiny new road, but...  No trees!

The commune has chopped down all the trees in the churchyard

We were hoping they would pollard them soon, but now the garden feels very naked; we hadn't realise quite how much we relied on the church to proved our 'backdrop'.

David has spoken with Bernard, and I understand that they are planning on planting new trees and had to cut the existing ones down as they were endangering the wall - I really hope they do.

Weird seeing more of the village, but I'm sure we'll get used to it very quickly, and it would be a crying shame if the lovely walls came down after all the work/money the commune invested in making everything safe - it's a Templar church, so has been around much longer than the trees.