Winter Woes!

Well, it’s all happening here. Our coldest ever weather is proving to be quite a handful. Our thermomenter showed  its lowest ever reading of minus 12.7 degrees C yesterday morning, and there were a good few more degrees of wind chill out there.
We anticipated at least some pipes freezing up, and that’s what has happened [...]

The Great Pig Experience

Today I have a guest post from Chris! He went on a pig-keeping course at the weekend and here’s what he has to say about it.
As visitors to our gite and fishing lakes will be aware, we are building up an old style farm with a selection of animals. OK, they didn’t have llamas on [...]

Pandas in France – Huang Huang and Yuang Zi at Zooparc Beauval

It’s the Chinese New Year today – Happy Year of the Dragon to everyone – so a very good time to talk about pandas, China’s most dramatic export.
France now has a pair of pandas at Beauval. We visited there last summer and at the time we commented on how OTT the Chinese section of the [...]

Missing and Mistreated Hens

We have a missing chicken situation tonight. When I went out to put the turkeys and hens to bed, I couldn’t find Limpy anywhere. Limpy is a Labelle chicken, and must be about three years old now. We bought her and five of her siblings for the freezer, but she was trodden on by a [...]