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 …
A beautiful and full day here today! Getting into the garden in the orchard and weeding the strawberry beds in sandals felt good. A lot needs doing but time is on my side, there is no need to panic. I have been so busy with everything to do with the hens and now they are …
(from the 22nd march) Am I broody or something? My hormones are playing havoc with me….The coming of this little ones is filling me with joy. Last week Pierre was telling me: “don’t worry; sooner or later the fox will get them”. I don’t want to believe him. I have worked so hard to make …
( from the 3rd March) My chicken pen is nearly ready. Only a few bits and bobs left to do to protect them from the fox and the pine marten. I met the pine marten by the pond one evening at dusk. Jean-Cri has asked me to record our tree frogs so that he could …
Dearest child, When you’ll come into this world you’ll be thousands of miles north from where I want to take you, in a land where I was born, and where my mother and my mother’s mother and her mother’s mother were born. Over 2300 years ago this beautiful land was called Numedia. Berber tribes and …
Now is the time for pruning in the orchard. My mum used to love the pruning time back at the farm. With her dog and her radio it was her own time away from the house and away from worry. Us kids were at school, beds were done, downstairs swept, lunch was on the stove …
Let me to tell you the story of a man born on the edge of the desert in a land of golden sand and hot skies he thought was his birth right as it had been passed on to him from his forefathers over many generations. A land where as a child he had run …
Let us be empowered by those young people with vision and courage who make such a difference in these dark times, and be reminded that the world will go on without me and you because we are too old, but in the hands of these young people there is nothing to fear. Amanda Gorman stole …
There is a thicket just below our balcony. It is a small area on a slope that was devastated by the storm in August 2015 when some old ash trees and wild plum trees fell. At the time I intended on dealing with the dead trunks and branches, clean up the mess and plant some …
November already and one could easily be fooled to believe it’s spring. It’s so warm and we can work outside comfortably with just a Tee-shirt…We saw the sparrow-hawk on the prowl around the bird feeder this lunchtime, now that the elm has lost its leaves and there is no more protection for our little feathered …
La dame aux ânes 