"It's your year," said Geoff. The restoration of the barn has begun: An ambitious project given the size of the building. Last June, I declared myself retired to be able to devote myself to it. In view of the current national madness, letting myself be carried by a big and exiting project feels like wisdom…. …
Today was the day the guineas were to jump the fence and go exploring the neighbourhood. Last week I took a chance in opening their pen in the morning not knowing if they would ever come back to roost. To my delight they have been back every evening. But this morning as I was leaving …
Some people have a dog or a cat or may be both. We don’t have a dog but we have 2 cats and we have Solo. Solo was born in our hands and little did we realize what life had in store for us after this event. He ( may be she?) is now nearly …
10 years ago we planted the orchard. Where there was a field of white clay on the side of the hill facing south and overlooking the lake, and where the ground was at its deepest amongst the rocks, we put apple and pear and apricot and cherry and walnut and almond and plum and kaki …
The girls are lovely. Who would have thought that our hens would be talking to us? Because they do! They have a way of rubbing their beaks on our legs and there is no mistaking that, they are saying what have you got for me? And they are insisting like a young child would. If …
Saturday 5th June in the Pyrenees-FRANCE- We are all sitting down and chatting, 13 of us around this table, waiting for Pierre. This morning the last few kilometres before Porta in the Orient Natural Park, offered us spectacular views of dark green wooded mountains and deep misty valleys. Some of us came from far like …
It has rained all night and there is plenty of picking for the hens: worms on the ground everywhere. I have never seen such a sight. It’s like mushrooms in the forest, you see them or you don’t. Bibi and Didier were brilliant with those. They used to bring back boxful of ceps and all. …
Our builder has lost his daughter in a car crash at 6am, just down the road from here. She was a kid, a young woman in her twenties….The bloke we buy the chicken grain from told me yesterday. We are a small community where everyone knows everyone and news travel fast. Gerard was going to …
This morning as I was feeding the ewes Cinders came into the shed looking for something and not finding it, went back out and disappeared fast….Of course, silly me, she was simply ready to lay her egg. Then I heard such a strange noise coming from the coop and opening their coop-door gently so as …
March 30th- The girls have been here one week. They have settled and one little one, the smallest one, is giving us an egg every day. The others are busy with other things. They have not been using the ladder to come out in the morning, they have been flying down. The egg layer goes …
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