Sunday 18^th November

After attending Mass at the local church we were given a little Amherst badge by a former mayor, invited to a luncheon on Tuesday with the parish and then had breakfast at a local cafe with John and Aileen. On the way to the cafe we passed this wooden structure ( a former tree I imagine) with faces of prominent former Amherst identities carved within.

From there we attended a “deceased estate and antique” auction in the same hall as the farmers market on Friday.   Unlike some auctions we have been to in the past, the auctioneer was sitting perched atop a stool on a table at the end of the hall reigning supreme over all the goods on offer.  It quickly became apparent who were the serious bidders and in what goods their interests lay.  We were amused at the little nods of the head signaling a bid and the low prices the auctioneer stooped to in order to begin the bidding.  I bemoaned the fact a number of times that I was not able to bid or buy anything lest it tip the suitcase right off the scales in a few days time.  Regardless of my inability to have another sample from Amherst we certainly had no trouble filling in a very cold Sunday afternoon.