Blog in France

So, it’s eight years to the day today since Les Fragnes became ours. And Chris and I have broken a record. Up to now, the longest we’d lived in the same place since we got married was seven years. We had two years in Cramlington, Northumberland, then four years in...

Our fields are full of hay bales at the moment, which not only looks nice, but also means our animals will have plenty to eat this winter. The hay is very good quality this year. We’d noticed that the grass had grown taller than we could ever remember it being....

Whoops, hadn’t realised it had been so long since I’d last written a blog. It’s partly the summer effect: our holiday cottage and carp fishing business is in full swing, and the hot weather means a lot more watering of animals and veggies has to be done. Oh yes, and...

So, Caiti’s two years at Bordeaux Uni are finished. She’ll be completing her licence (bachelor’s degree) at either Laval or Montreal Uni from September. I went to pick her up last week. Betty, our bossy and opinionated satnav, took me the cross-country way which bypasses  all tolls (happy face) but...

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we’d found a hedgehog family in our polytunnel – mum and an unknown number of tiny babies living under one of the sheets of cardboard we put down to kill off the weeds. Plans to replace the compost in there have been...