Blog in France

It’s official. France is about to get very hot. It’s canicule (heatwave) time.Thirty départements (including Creuse) are on orange alert  with an awful lot of the rest currently on yellow alert. It’s bringing drought with it so watch out for water restrictions being introduced in your area. So here’s a...

You may remember that not long ago the big little pig relocation took place when we rehoused the guinea-pigs. Well, yesterday it was time for the big big pig relocation. We moved our Berkshire boar Oberon into his own field. The girls, Rosamunde and Portia, are nearly mature and Oberon...

Here is Wiggo, the latest addition to the Les Fragnes herd. He’s an alpaca, and it looks like he’s a suri.We’ve named him after Bradley Wiggins and in fact, it’s very appropriate that we have. The two Wiggos have roughly the same hair colour and they both have sideburns! Our...

Olympics are bad for your health. We’ve probably all been slightly couch-potatoish while they’ve been on, missing out on our own exercise to make sure we watch these phenomenal athletes. But their health is under threat too. I was particularly struck this year by the amount and prevalence of bandaging...

This afternoon I was sorting through some of my books for the children staying at our gite this week, who, bless their hearts, have become great fans of my writing! I came across a stash of bookmarks that went with some of the books. If there was spare cover cardstock...