Creuse Carp

I’ve never talked much about our fish on this blog, and since it’s animal week, then they should get a look in. We have three carp fishing lakes. Carp – ciprinids – are cool fish. Izaak Walton said so in his famous book, The Compleat Angler. To be precise, he said “The Carp is the [...]

Best fishes for Christmas

What do you get when you unload one and a half tonnes of fish into your lakes? Aching muscles!
Chris and I had a busy morning. Our long-awaited order of carp, three new catfish and a sturgeon came today from Couturier fisheries in Indre. As usual they were beautiful specimens. Benj was on photography duty as [...]

Gite no more

The last guests have left Amethyst Gite – the last ever. From today, Amethyst becomes our house! The big move across starts now. It’s going to take a couple of months to move everything.
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