Blog in France

Here are some photos of Elrond, our new arrival. (His father, a very fine stud alpaca from the Alpagas de la Tille herd, is Gandalf!) Fingers crossed for him please – he’s a little premature and not very strong, although starting to suckle well from Mum. It's tiring being born!...

The cherry trees are overloaded with fruit this year. It’s quite a surprise given that it was such a long, cold winter. But I’m delighted – I love cherries. Caitlin made a gorgeous cherry clafoutis for us a few days ago. Clafoutis originated in Limousin, our part of France, sometime...

Pool with a view I always find it a bit of a slog to blog in summer. It’s not for lack of things to write about – summer is our busiest time. The trekking season has got underway, our gite and lakes have had clients since March and are booked...

To cheer us all up during this soggy June, here are some faithfully reproduced excerpts from the instruction manual for the power augur we’ve just bought (to bore holes for fence posts): Gasoline planter is designed for drilling and grubbing of yam and burdock planting holes, holes of radio detector,...

A photo blog today with pics of Ruadhri’s bike fancy dress entry.  Here is a llama bike and his Peruvian boy. The llama bike arrives There was a good turnout. They all cycled round the village twice. Round the bend There was a ‘gouter’ afterwards of brioche, sweets and fizzy...