It’s minus 4.3 degrees C and falling fast out there, so time for something warming. And what better than pumpkin soup! Regular readers will know of my love/hate relationship with pumpkins. Only veggies beginning with p seem to grow well at Les Fragnes so we end up with pommes de terre (potatoes), poireaux (leeks) and [...]
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The 25th of November is Saint Catherine’s Day. This is an important day, not just because my daughter is an Irish Catherine (Caitlin is the Gaelic version of the name), or solely because Saint Catherine is the patron saint of spinners, amongst other things (and I’m a wannabe spinner of fine alpaca yarn). It’s important [...] January is all about keeping warm in chilly Creuse. This year’s winter started earlier than usual, but hasn’t been too bad overall. However, another cold spell is looming and our woodpile is a bit on the small side now. Two cordes didn’t go as far as we thought. (A corde of wood is roughly 4 [...] There are currently several tens of thousands of common cranes (grus) flying over France. A couple of thousand of those came over our house this afternoon. Every autumn, usually early November, they fly from northern Europe (Sweden, the Baltic Sea and northern Germany) across France on their way to Spain, although there is another migration [...] |
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