Sprouting garlic
Posted on April 7, 2022
Although it doesn’t usually get the chance, this time some of our garlic has ‘gone over’. We’ll plant it out and see what happens…
The woodburner
Posted on April 6, 2022
We thought we might have been finished with our woodburning stove until the autumn, but a recent cold snap led us to resort to it again.
March’s Last Photo
Posted on April 1, 2022
Spring is upon us, and in a field next to our local déchetterie (recycling point) here are the lambs to prove it.
Wisteria on the way
Posted on March 31, 2022
Tracks in the earth
Posted on March 30, 2022
After a lot of heavy rain earlier in the month, the past week or so has been warmer and sunnier (it won’t last). This has helped to dry out the previously sodden ground, but nonetheless there is still ample evidence in the surrounding fields of the passage of farm tractors through the mud.
French bread
Posted on March 25, 2022
There is nothing to beat fresh, ‘proper’ French bread – from a genuine artisan boulanger, not a supermarket.
Send in the clean-up team
Posted on March 23, 2022
Sheep markets are held regularly in our local village. They take place on the Rue du Marché Ovin (it means…er, ‘Sheep Market Road’). When I was recently mooching around the metal pens I had obviously just missed one.
In the circumstances, you can’t really blame the sheep for being nervous, I suppose.
Crossing the Forth
Posted on March 16, 2022
Driving north on the new(ish) Queensferry Crossing over the River Forth.
Colours by the bucketful
Posted on March 12, 2022
An arresting and very colourful display of….er, buckets, outside a shop in St Andrews.
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