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Snow On Tuesday – It’s Cold In Creuse

I’m cancelling Cheese on Tuesday this week because of the snow. We’ve waited all winter for it, so now that it’s here, it’s time for a snowy blog. Boursin can wait yet another week! It’s not the snowiest it’s ever been here at Les Fragnes, but it’s pretty impressive. We were on vigilance orange (orange alert) [...] [...]

Winter

Winter is here, if only for a few days. (It’s forecast to warm up again towards the end of the week.) It was minus 7 degrees C for the lycée bus run this morning at 6.20 am, brrr! And a lovely crispy walk to school with Rors to Nouzerines an hour and a half later. So [...] [...]

Étang des Landes – Limousin’s Largest Lake

A recent geocaching trip took us to Étang des Landes at Lussat, Creuse. This is a 100 hectare lake, Limousin’s largest, set in 165 hectares of nature reserve. Apparently 600 species of animal call it home, with 50 of them being protected. Certain breeds of amphibians are amongst those menacé (threatened). We’ve only ever seen about [...] [...]

Tree-mendous Excitement – First Tempête of Winter

What a day! The promised tempête materialised in the early hours, waking us several times, and was still enthusiastically gusting and raining at 8 am, when it was time to take Rors off to catch the school bus. It definitely was neither cycling nor walking weather, so into the car we got. Chris said he’d [...] [...]