Oh, Lawd, I think I've probably embarrassed a number of Swiss just north of Neuchatel. Mr. Big and I went to the brocante faire or marche aux puces in Le Landeron a few weekends ago. On our way out of town at the main roundabout I spied an antique store and implored Mr. Big to stop.

Outside the shop was a giant concrete planter that had been obviously hit by a car or something, anyway, it was completely cracked in a number of pieces. And, in a very UNSWISS fashion, some enterprising soul had put it back together with vice clamp banding. So, of course, I snapped a photo.

I immediately thought of a hilarious website, thereifixedit.com, where people post pictures of jury-rigged stuff or stuff that's been MacGuyvered and viewers vote on it.

Well, the planter in Les Landeron has almost 300 votes as the best jury-rigging and beats the heck out of the competition. Check it out, it was posted on 10/14 by my son, Colin.
http://thereifixedit.com/page/4/

What a great website - you will have to forward your entry to the Le Landeron website

Are you kidding? I will probably be deported!

Excellent I need to show this to my dear colleague who lives in Le Landeron and as she is an Italian I might even want to post her exuberate comment on this afterwards

I sent both links to the "Bibliothèque" of the City of Le Landeron right now. Expect they will take it with appropriate humour !

Cheers

Lovely! I mean Le Landeron... It's to be the biggest Brocante in Switzerland.

I liked this picture, too:

But nothing is worth much without pictures. And if we talk about the place, here some pictures

Great pictures Wollishofener. Good view over St.Peter's island that was inhabited by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

That is pretty un-Swiss, at least that's what they would have us believe. . . but then a bit of empirical evidence to the contrary shows up.

Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Before they waste any more aluminum foil, someone should tell them it’s only a waffle iron.”

We are expert though thanks to Jean Tinguely: