Blog in France

What do you get when you leave a cat, a scanner and a bored teenager in the same room?

Unless you’ve been offworld for the last three weeks, you must have been aware that the Tour de France has been going on. This is without doubt the world’s greatest spectator sporting event. A large proportion of France turns out to take in the race as it goes by. We’ve...

I spent a lot of time browsing in the seed section of gardening shops earlier in the year and picked up some interesting looking things to grow. These included coriander, melons, cucumbers, celeriac and white courgettes. I picked the first of these the other day and Chris used some in...

Two things are doing incredibly well in the polytunnel at the moment – tomatoes and Swiss chard. In fact, both of them are doing rather too well. It’s quite hard to get in the polytunnel at all! Towering tomatoes Tomatoes we all know about, but Swiss chard? Have you come...

I’m suffering from blogging apathy at the moment. It seems to happen every summer. It’s not that there isn’t anything happening. We’ve got all the usual animal and land husbandry tasks as well my editing business, guests in the gîte, anglers on the lakes and three kids at home. We,...