Blog in France

We’ve got cases of flystrike in our herd for the first time. Bertie is suffering from it, and yesterday we detected that Mellie the alapca is affected too, fortunately to a lesser extent. Bertie's haircut in progress Flystrike, myiasis, is unpleasant but sadly quite common in hairier animals. Attracted by...

We have a poorly llama. We noticed Bertie wasn’t his usually bouncy self on Monday morning, and closer inspection revealed a small wound on his leg. We treated that with Betadine but by afternoon he was even more miserable so I headed off to the vet to get some antibiotics....

I have to stay on a sporty theme, what with the Olympics going on at the moment. You may remember that French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga did incredibly well at Wimbledon this year. He’s immensely popular in France and has now become the star of a bande dessinée (BD or...

I’m pretty sure you must have been watching the Olympics. I have, which is why I haven’t blogging quite as much as usual. I’m an enthusiastic swimmer (I swam competitively until I was 37) so I’ve been riveted to the swimming finals every night. But I’ve also been watching judo,...

The big pig relocation has taken place. Actually, it’s the big little pig relocation as it involves the guinea pigs rather than the porcine pigs. Not so classy ... The guinea pigs have lived in a variety of homemade cages over the years, and for quite a long while they...