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A View From The Farmhouse, Part Five

9th November 2023 Going Postal 2703 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 3317 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 3701 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 3428 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 2380 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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That’s Life, Part 2

10th August 2023 Going Postal 2747 Comments

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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That’s Life

3rd August 2023 Going Postal 2180 Comments

I was interested to read 1O210ken’s piece: it is good to read and perhaps learn from other peoples’ experience. I had the same question put to me by my father when I was 15. I [more…]

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Stand in the Trench, Achilles*

6th July 2022 Roger Ackroyd 4412 Comments

Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]

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Book Review: “We Defended Normandy” by Lt Gen Hans Speidel, 1951

21st October 2021 Going Postal 4142 Comments

Could War In Europe Have Ended in 1944? Was Montgomery right ? Americans said “No”, now Speidel says “Yes”   “We Defended Normandy” by Lt-Gen Hans Speidel (Herbert Jenkins, 12. 6d.), 1951 Book review by [more…]

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