• Stressed but blessed

    Oscar in the foreground, Ruadhri with Teggs in a basket on the right Yesterday saw the special animal blessing ceremony to mark St Francis of Assisi day at our local church in Nouzerines. Very few services take place there any  more sadly. We set off in good time with one...


  • Living off the land

    The season of fruitfulness continues – and we still haven’t got to the season of nutfulness yet! The blackberries have just about finished, the plums are almost past their best but the apples and pears are just coming into their own. Every day sees me chopping, peeling, stewing and jamming,...


  • Hedgerow bounty

    We’ve done a lot of cycling this holiday, particularly over the last ten days since we wound down the llama trekking for the summer. But the last few trips have been very slow. Are we all tired? Have we overdone the exercise? Do we need a quiet, restful day to...


  • In the news

    Katrina, Caitlin and visitors We’re in today’s La Montagne newspaper (Creuse edition)! There’s a nice little article about our llamas. We’re building up quite a collection of cuttings now. We’ve been in four different papers (and fairly regularly in one of those, L’Echo du Berry), on the radio and on...


  • August celebrations

    August begins with my birthday, which the rest of the family are generally much keener to celebrate than I am! But you can’t stop time, so you might as well enjoy its passing. Caiti cooked up a lovely birthday feast for our evening party. She made goat’s cheese and tomato...