
A View From The Farmhouse, Part Five
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…]
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…]
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…]
Monday Good morning everyone, it’s another grey morning and I hear it’s going to rain later so no windowsill for me when I have finished duties. This place is relaxed today as the Rich Boy [more…]
‘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…]
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…]
Le Grand Fromage Lands Although elected under the banner of the Socialist Party (which obviously holds pro “European” views), Hollande attempted to govern in the interest of the “Colonial Party known as French Colonial Union”. [more…]
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…]
Nicolas Sarkozy, American agent1 (The Frog on the Seine is all mine all mine) On 2nd September 2005 Jacques Chirac suffered a serious stroke and ceased to govern. He was no longer able to execute [more…]
My first time in France was in 1963 on an army ‘Adventure Training Expedition,’ aka ‘Think up a jolly which has a ‘ military slant ‘ and have most expenses funded. We were to canoe [more…]
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