Gigi has just brought another mulot into the house, and been quickly chased out. Mulot is the colloquial term round here for any sort of small country rodent. The usual suspects are campagnols or field rats, which is what they used to be called. It was my friend Georges-Louise Leclerc de Buffon, a famous naturalist, [...]
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Sorry if you called by my blog in the last few days and found it wasn’t there. The server, Blue Host, went down unexpectedly and for a long time mid-week, so Chris decided it was a good moment to transfer operations to another server, Lunar Pages. He took care of all that yesterday. So now [...] We’re just back from getting Nessie and the unusually-named Reaper the guinea-pig blessed at church. It’s St Francis’ Day and the fourth animal-blessing ceremony to be held at Nouzerines’ St Clair’s church has taken place. We offered to take Treacle the cat with us, but she said she had more important things to do! It’s been like March or November most of this week – cold and wet. But I girded my loins and went for quick dip in the pool today. I can’t bear to not use it since we’re so lucky to have our own pool, and it’s useable for such a relatively short time, late May [...] |
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