The cherry trees are overloaded with fruit this year. It’s quite a surprise given that it was such a long, cold winter. But I’m delighted – I love cherries.
Caitlin made a gorgeous cherry clafoutis for us a few days ago. Clafoutis originated in Limousin, our part of France, sometime in the mid nineteenth century. The [...]
I always find it a bit of a slog to blog in summer. It’s not for lack of things to write about – summer is our busiest time. The trekking season has got underway, our gite and lakes have had clients since March and are booked through to October, we’ve celebrated the end of term [...]
To cheer us all up during this soggy June, here are some faithfully reproduced excerpts from the instruction manual for the power augur we’ve just bought (to bore holes for fence posts):
Gasoline planter is designed for drilling and grubbing of yam and burdock planting holes, holes of radio detector, holes of fencing poles …. holes [...]
A photo blog today with pics of Ruadhri’s bike fancy dress entry. Here is a llama bike and his Peruvian boy.
There was a good turnout. They all cycled round the village twice.
There was a ‘gouter’ afterwards of brioche, sweets and fizzy orange – good healthy stuff! It was a great event – let’s hope they’ll [...]