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A View From The Farmhouse, Part Five

9th November 2023 Going Postal 2711 Comments

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 3323 Comments

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 3707 Comments

‘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 3444 Comments

 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 2384 Comments

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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A Life in Hungary

1st September 2020 Going Postal 2954 Comments

Following on from my previous sketch “Life in a Hungarian Village” I thought I’d expand on it for any Puffins that may interested in hearing a little more about life in Hungary from an ex-pat [more…]

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Life In A Hungarian Village

21st April 2020 El Cnutador 2576 Comments

Our village is situated in Vas County, the far west of Hungary close to the Austrian border and is surrounded by forest and agricultural land. Although we can see the Alps in the distance this [more…]

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