Blog in France

It’s World Egg Day today, Friday 11th October. Bet you didn’t know that. So what’s it all about? According to thinkegg.com, it’s to get us to enjoy the versatility and deliciousness of eggs. In other words – to eat more eggs. Seeing as around 750 billion eggs are consumed each year in...

It’s definitely autumn at Les Fragnes. Here are the signs: The wood is stacked and ready… …and, since this morning, being burned. It’s cool and damp so that means happy pigs with lovely soft ground to get muddy in! But not happy turkeys. They seem a little wary. And well...

The trouble with owning a gite is that you put so much time and effort into keeping that sparkling clean and in top notch condition that you run out of energy when it comes to your own home. It tends to get a little forgotten about. However, now that the holiday...

On Monday morning, while looking for straying turkeys, Benj and I found this little guy. He’s the latest addition to the Les Fragnes camelid herd. He’s a Suri alpaca. Mum Ciara had quietly given birth without us noticing. Now, since it was St Jerome’s Day I thought Jerome might be...

  We’ve had a typical country living autumn morning. After doing the usual livestock related chores with Chris, my next job was to pluck a turkey. After that I cleaned out the big chest freezer, all ready to receive autumn’s bounty that’s either currently still on trees or in the ground or...