Your parents went their separate ways when you were very young, and because of living near each other it had been easy for you to see your dad regularly while living at home with your mum. You have been brought up with “your dad is your dad” and even though you have tried to …
Author: la dame aux ânes
Française avec 35 ans de vie à Londres et puis en 2010 un retour dans le Sud-Ouest de la France dans une petite ferme de 3 hectares. Ayant découvert la permaculture depuis peu c’est avec enthousiasme que nous nous éduquons et que nous construisons notre verger, potager, jardin…
Born French with 35 years living in London, then returning to the French South-West and living on a 7.5 acres of land since 2010. Having discovered Permaculture it’s with a lot of enthusiasm that we are educating ourselves and building our orchard, vegetable plot and garden….
Lettre à une jeune femme
Tes parents se sont séparés quand tu étais toute petite et vivant dans le même quartier, choix de ta mère, il t’était facile de voir ton père régulièrement tout en vivant avec ta mère. Tu as été élevée avec « ton père est ton père » et tu as bien essayé de voir en lui un …
Mum
Mum died from a stroke on the 12th of November last year. She had been so proud of her good health: At 87 she wasn’t taking any pills or anything, had no major concerns what so ever. She stood straight, tall and slim, taking care of her weight gracefully, like she did with her friends, …
Maman
Maman est décédée d’un infarctus le 12 novembre dernier. Elle qui était si fière de sa santé : A 87 ans, pas un médicament, pas de problème majeur, rien. Elle était toujours bien droite, grande et mince, prenant soin de son poids discrètement, comme elle faisait de ses amies, et ignorante de cette aorte bouchée qui …
Lambing is over
Our ewes are not going to produce lambs anymore. We intended on them stopping last year but our ram Dini ( from Houdini!) escaped from his field along with the donkeys and managed to get himself under the fence and into the ewes’ field where he had been longing to be. On that damp …
L’art de faire son fromage.
Merci à vous David Asher, pour votre fabuleux livre : L’art de faire son fromage. « Rien n’est perdu. Voici l’enseignement de ce livre qui questionne avec beaucoup de clarté et de simplicité notre modèle de production contemporaine en nous ramenant aux fondamentaux sans autres forme de procès. En faisant le pari un peu fou du fromage …
Home made cheese
Thank you very much David Asher for your book on cheese making: The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, using traditional, Non Industrial Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World’s Best Cheeses. I bought the French version of your book and I haven’t stopped making all sorts of delicious things with the good and fresh local …
On brain health
A healthy brain seems to be what we need in order to live free of Alzheimer or any other degenerative diseases. A fascinating documentary on ARTE, a French/German channel, three years ago got me to rethink my way around health and the pharmaceutical industry. The program was called “Le jeûne, une nouvelle thérapie ?”= …
The will to act
The reality of us human beings destroying our world on a terrifying speed and scale is escaping me. I don’t talk about it much or if I do it is like I would of a good TV series, with passion but somewhat detached. Like anything on TV, it is removed from me and so has …
DESERT OR PARADISE, a “must read”
For the last couple of years we have been thinking about building a pond below the orchard, where the ground below the fruits trees drops down naturally and where only stones prevail along with very few grasses and juvenile ash trees. We’re on the edge of the “Park Regional des Causses du Quercy Blanc” …
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