Blog in France

Here are a few snowy, sledging photos to get you in a Christmas mood! All of us at Les Fragnes wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Looking forward to sharing our news with you in 2010!

Every year our big Christmas event is Ruadhri’s Christmas concert. The three schools of St Marien, Nouzerines and Bussiere St Georges get together and organise some festive fun. To be honest the first couple of years were a bit on the over-enthusiastic side. The concerts went on for rather a...

It’s been snowing all day today, and it’s set to continue. This is the first snow our two male alpacas have seen – they were indoors last winter. They weren’t very impressed to start with. The llamas, however, have seen it all before – apart from Lulin of course. They...

These are taken from the December 1932 edition of La Prospérité à la Campagne. Le mois de l’Avent … est du pluie ou de vent. In the month of Advent you’ll get either rain or wind. En Vaucluse, les douze jours précédent Noël sont appelés ‘jours compteurs’ parce qu’ils désignent...

What do you get when you unload one and a half tonnes of fish into your lakes? Aching muscles! Chris and I had a busy morning. Our long-awaited order of carp, three new catfish and a sturgeon came today from Couturier fisheries in Indre. As usual they were beautiful specimens....