• The Rentrée That Wasn’t

    Oops, bit of a muddly start to the new term. There we were at 7.40 am, Rors, Chris and I plus two dogs, waiting for the school bus with varying degrees of eagerness. In fact, there we were at 7.34 am since we always get there early as the bus...


  • Jubilant Jess and the Catfish Caper!

    Back in 2006 we introduced the first fish to our three empty lakes. They hadn’t been empty when we’d seen them prior to buying Les Fragnes (apart from one lake which had been drained and so was even empty of water!) but when we became the proud owners of them...


  • Turkey Tales and Trials

    I can always tell when the work/life balance is tending towards work/work again – it’s when I haven’t been blogging for a while. This is only my second blog this month. Now, please don’t think I’m whining about working. I recently saw the definition of an entrepreneur as someone who works...


  • A Bit Of A Do At Boussac Castle

    A couple of weeks ago there was a ‘do’ at our local castle. (How cool is that – to have one of those!)   Boussac Castle is a truly impressive building, and it was open to the public for an evening to celebrate its 50th anniversary of being, well, open...


  • Hey June – where did you go?

    Goodness, I hadn’t realised it’s been a month since I put in an appearance in the blogosphere. Where has June gone? It got off to a great start with Caiti coming back home from Canada. She left with one suitcase and a small rucksack and came back with two suitcases...