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It’s all become too tiresome (insert meme)

4th January 2024 Going Postal 1

The departure date for a new life outside the United Kingdom is fast approaching. Yes,it is with a very heavy heart that I leave the country I have grown up in and loved. Some will [more…]

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A View From The Farmhouse, Part Five

9th November 2023 Going Postal 0

A frustrating few weeks with so much cold and wet weather. Two recent storms have stripped the fruit trees and blown part of the roof off the derelict cottage opposite the house. I have been [more…]

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A View From The Farmhouse, Part Four

26th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Work is ongoing to make more vegetables plots, obtain manure for the ones we have and keep the composting going. I will add another bin to the three recently built and establish a place for [more…]

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A View From the Farmhouse, Part Three

12th October 2023 Going Postal 0

‘Had we but World enough and time, This coyness lady were no crime………………. But at my back I always hear time’s winged Charriot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lye Deserts of vast eternity……………………’ [more…]

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A View From The Farmhouse, Part Two

21st September 2023 Going Postal 0

 Tons of soil (h/t Dr Spooner) The farm was bought by my English friend for an amount about the same as the cost of a reasonable terraced house in an English Northern town. In all, [more…]

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A View From The Farmhouse, Part One

7th September 2023 Going Postal 0

This is the first of an occasional series looking at life in Northern France in general and plotting progress with the farm. Setting the scene: Here in rural Lower Normandy things move at a slow [more…]

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This and next …..

21st April 2021 rattuscatchus 0

It was a fine Thursday evening as Mr. and Mrs. RC were out for their daily perambulation as permitted by Reichmarschall des Grossdeutchen Reiches Johnson. They were discussing arrangements of when relatives were to visit. [more…]

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