We were invited to a barbecue yesterday at the country house of some friends about five miles away. Fabulous place set in an estate of 300 hectares of woodlands, which makes our patch look rather modest. It's in the Sidobre and is littered with huge granite boulders. They even have their own Rocher Tremblant deep in the woods: a delicately balanced 500-ton boulder which moves gently up and down if you push it. Magic.
The Sidobre is one of the world's top granite producers, although it has been hard hit by Chinese competition. The top product is gravestones, 150,000 a year of them. The granite business has been boosted by the recent craze for tram systems, which need miles of rock solid bedding for the rails.
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