Blog in France

Our next-door-but-two neighbours, a kilometre away, have just celebrated their first anniversary in France. And despite the fact that they’re English expats like us, and that we pass their farm regularly on our way to and from Nouzerines, we haven’t got together very often at all. They’ve had a crazy...

Wilma, the girls' mother. Pic from http://www.lelogisfrance.com I promised you a bit more info about our new Berkshire pigs – Oberon, Portia and Rosamunde. We bought them from Lorraine and David Jones, whose pig experience day Chris attended back in chilly January. We fetched our breeding trio yesterday. It was...

Just back from a heavy day of driving through hail to collect our pigs, so a quick photo for today and a proper blog post about them tomorrow. Oberon, Portia and Rosamunde have only been here about half an hour but are very happy in the stable that they’ve evicted...

While Kate and Wills have been celebrating their first anniversary, no doubt in some style, more mundane things have been happening at Les Fragnes: our current group of anglers are bringing fish onto the bank at a very impressive rate; Rors has played, walked, cleared algae out of the pond,...

An engraving of a werewolf attack from 1512 I’m reading and reviewing a lot of paranormal fiction at the moment for both the Readers Favorite website and my own Books Are Cool. So I’m very into vampires, dhampirs, shapeshifters and werewolves at the moment. The French for werewolf is loup-garou,...