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Early mornings

Posted: 
May 30, 2022

Last week when it was so hot during the day time, I realised that I had been sleeping on the job, and I needed to urgently do the apple thinning in the orchard. This consists of finding the bunches of tiny apples, and knocking them off to leave only one for each grouping.

Dora, l’exploratrice

Posted: 
May 24, 2022

This is Dora. She was a very unusual chick, because of her ferocious courage. She was spotted chasing and devouring a whole mouse, when she was only a very small chick. Our gite visitors witnessed the event and told us incase she had problems..  She didn’t. But she didn’t grow much either.

Hot damn hot

Posted: 
May 15, 2022

Its been too hot for me to make sense of anything these last two days. I am usually a very keen brocanter, but I turned and left after just an hour this morning. Bought just four vintage champagne coupes, and then in my heat induced lethargy, managed to break one of them.

Day out in Poitiers

Posted: 
April 28, 2022

We had a day out in Poitiers, only one and half hours from Domaine De La Salle, and I highly recommend it as a lovely place to visit. It had beautiful churches to see, lovely old architecture, nice little cafes and museums. A 4th century baptistry which I just can’t get my head around.

The bathroom at the top of the house

Posted: 
April 10, 2022

The bathroom at the top of the house. I love this bathroom because its always light and airy, and you have the view to the back over the roof and fields on one side, and over the pigonnier tower to the other.

Mornac-sur-Seudre

Posted: 
March 29, 2022

It has been so gorgeous in terms of the weather - seemingly everywhere! On Sunday, Jono and I downed tools, and headed out for a day on our own. A flea market in one village to start with, where I had bought a wrought iron bench within the first few minutes.

Reminiscing

Posted: 
March 22, 2022

This is so french to me, and reminds me of my student days in Paris, wandering home in the early hours perhaps. It was in Dijon, and nothing famous, just caught my eye as I felt that I could be looking into the past.

Rochefort Artists Open Doors

Posted: 
March 21, 2022

This weekend, there were about 25 different artists studios and homes that you could visit and I saw almost all of them. This picture features the house of Camille Lescure.

The Daffodils are out!

Posted: 
February 21, 2022

The daffodils are out in the ‘Allee’, and they're gorgeous. They seem to come up differently every year and this year they're in overabundance. The forests are full of them too, so I pick my bunches there, leaving those in the ‘Allee’ for everyone to enjoy.

Cold Morning

Posted: 
January 17, 2022

Still cold, and the last two days, unlike in this photo which I took on Saturday, have been totally foggy. You really can’t see very far at all into the distance. As I look out of the window, I can see the birds enjoying the fatty seed balls, and I wonder where they sleep at hight.

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