Blog in France

I know I often refer to Les Fragnes as our farm, but technically it’s not. We’re a smallholding – albeit a very large one! Since we don’t sell anything we produce here on a significant scale – currently on no scale at all – we’re not farmers. Yesterday we had...

Goodness, it’s been a hot birthday this year, but fun. Caiti gave me a birthday pig. Ok, only temporarily. Runtling – the smallest of Rosie’s ten – was soon back with her brothers and sisters. It’s a good job it was Runtling as I’m not sure I’d have managed a bigger piglet. He’s...

Every country has its yuk flavour of yogurt – you know, the one no one actually wants but gets anyway in the multipacks that are sold in supermarkets. In Ireland it was rhubarb yogurt. Have you ever tried to get kids to eat that? Here in France it’s pineapple yogurt –...

I catalogued – or rather pigalogued – Rosie’s piglets recently in this blog, and now here are Portia’s half dozen. They’re all heavier than Rosie’s, by approximately half a kilo, which is probably to be expected given that they’re six as opposed to her eleven. At twenty-fours old they’re playing...

I’m back. Due to this site being jackhammered again and so rendered out of action, poor old Blog in France had to take an enforced break. Mind you, it’s been so hot it’s been hard to muster up blogging energy! So what’s been going on? Well, Portia, our second Berkshire sow, is...