Blog in France

The French village of Pincé in Normandy has got it right. The Maire is proposing to supply two chickens to every household that wants them in a bid to cut down on organic waste. Chickens eat up to 150 kg of food a year. That’s a lot of leftovers they...

Palm Sunday started on Saturday with a rare service at our 12th century church, St Clair’s, in Nouzerines. It’s seldom open so we make sure we go to every event that’s held there to show our support for this wonderful building. The service was taken entirely by lay preachers. In...

Suffolk lambs. Pic from highfieldhousefarm.co.uk Yesterday was a heavy, sheep centred day. Our lamb breeding programme got off to a sad start. We went out yesterday morning to check the ewes, and found a lamb’s head protruding from No. 28. We rounded her up and took her to a stable....

I made an impulse buy this morning. And I’ve bucked all the trends by doing so. I’ll explain. According to research, impulse buys are most likely to happen in large towns and cities, and not in rural areas. I made mine at quiet Boussac’s Thursday market. Young people are the...

Ruadhri and I went to Guéret today. I was due for a minor skirmish with French bureaucracy, which has left me with my usual fonctionnaire-induced headache, but Rors had happier reasons for tagging along. One was a visit to the library. Our archictecturally state-of-the-art bibliothèque, built at a walloping cost...