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Barn renovation update

work in progress (tea break not withstanding)This week I ’ave been mainly freezing my n**s offrenovating our barn.  It’s a slow process because there’s only me working on this building site but then...

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Author-ity

Feline museThis week I ’ave been mainly writing magazine articles.  I’ve a couple of articles appearing in a French gardening magazine in May and that involves some correction of my hesitant attempts...

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You Can Spoon

 This week I ’ave been mainly carving wooden spoons.  With 11 acres of woodlands green woodworking has long been on my list of things to learn about but, like so many things in our busy smallholding...

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A leap year was never a good sheep year

newborn Ouessant lambSae much fur auld wisdom.  Luckily fur us an' uir woolly flock, thes auld Scottish sayin' is clearly a load ay balloney.  Had they instead said, “th' heed gaskit is gonnae blaw oan...

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When a man is tired of blogging, he is tired of life …

squeaky-clean new kitchenSamuel Johnsonas that prodigious wordsmith Dr Johnson might have said if he hadn’t died over 200 years before the advent of the blog. Anyhow, this is just an unnecessarily...

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Gabrielle has taken up smoking again …

Gabrielle, she's smokin' ...… but happily, we need not concern ourselves with her health as she’s not inhaling the little puffs, directing them instead at bees.  As I’ve written many times, we have a...

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Wildlife

Inspired by Tim’s educational Aigronne Valley Wildlife blog, here’s a slice of the wildlife that we share our bit of Brittany with.  First up, a recording made back in March this year of  male and...

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Old Queens and virgin queens ...

Our venerable Britannic majesty has just celebrated 60 years on the throne.  Royalty is a subject I’d best avoid when visiting our neighbours, recently retired farmers Paul and Christiane.  Christiane...

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Things that go ‘screech’ in the night

Zied swung by our permaculture smallholding the other day to ask us if we could help him identify a type of owl that was living in one of the old outbuildings at his dog kennels.  There was a big pile...

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Making a very large hole in a wall

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Faces

 Back in 2008, our talented, artistic friend, Alastair, painted us a man sharpening his scythe of one side of our house. We live in an agricultural barn, converted into a dwelling by the previous...

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Shearing Sheep

Weather to shear. The whether-or-not depended on the weather and as we’d ‘enjoyed’ le temps pourri (rotten weather) since some super days back in March, I thought the sheep would be glad to hold onto...

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une oie dans un seau d'eau

histoire à suivre (story to follow)

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Milky mysteries and creamy conundrums

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Trash bugs – a minute walking dustbin

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Behind closed doors

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Three little eco-piggies and their straw bale house

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Projectile vomiting

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The Days are Getting Longer

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Stinking canine phallic fungi

A kindly coincidence brought tree surgeon, Duncan Smith, back to our village. A near neighbour had asked him to tame a leggy leylandii hedge and he had a ‘problem’. As a commercial enterprise, the...

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