A corner of France

The Heizomat boiler has been pretty reliable over the 12 years it has been installed.   The manufacturer claims a working life of 35 - 40 ye...

There have been numerous jobs around the house and garden that I've been meaning to do, when I could get around to it.   Well, now, in l...

The Mayenne département is know for the depth and fertility of its soil.  Not at my place.  Fertile yes, but deep, no.  There's about t...

I grew climbing Borlotto beans last year, and got a good harvest.  But the stakes and twigs I put up for them to climb on didn't work ve...

So I was walking along the path in the garden, and suddenly I stopped.  Not that I intended to stop; my body just stopped of its own accord....

It was November when an errant driver slammed his car into our gate, knocking down one of the posts and flinging the gate a short way down t...

I planted this little clump of Bluebells under the Walnut tree, several years ago.  After a bit of a slow start, they seem to have installe...