Blog in France

Our baby huarizo (llama-alpaca cross – see yesterday’s post) has a name. Caiti chose Fionn McCool, which is the name of the famous Irish giant of legend. It suits our little lad very well I think. Here’s a lovely photo Caits took of him yesterday (on the Blackberry Tablet she...

Baby and mum Our first huarizo has been born at Les Fragnes. What’s one of them? It’s a llama-alpaca cross, with an alpaca father (Brendan) and a llama mum (Katrina). In contrast, a cross born to an alpaca mum and llama dad is a misti. And there are more classifications....

We’ve had the results of Ruadhrí’s évaluations nationales (national evaluations). He’s in CM2, the final year of primary school. He was last assessed officially at the end of his CE1 year in 2009 when he was at Nouzerines school. In previous years the national results have been published on this...

Not very well. Here’s one reason why. Voltaire sunbathing and flower squashing While I was taking the photo of Voltaire, one of the new chickens was eating my crocs. What is it with poultry and plastic footwear? They all go for them! Croc-a-doodle-do Our tiny flowerbed in front of the...

I must have learned to ride a bike when I was about five, in time to cycle to and from school every day with my brother and sister. So I’ve been cycling – a lot – for the best part of forty-five years but I’ve never left a skid mark...