A corner of France

 We're just back from a trip to England, visiting friends and family.   Here's a few observations: Energy.  The houses we visited we...

I have been impressed recently by the mutual self-help network that has arisen spontaneously in our little village.   It has matured to the ...

It's become our tradition that when one of our pet cats dies, we bury him and plant a shrub or tree as a grave marker.   Our cat Minuit ...

I had a basket of unshelled walnuts left over from last year, and this year's crop was plentiful too.   So I set out to shell the lot an...

It's a voyage of discovery to visit the veg patch.   This morning I found a hitherto unnoticed, perfectly ripe butternut squash in among...

Following swiftly on from my last post, here's a wicked walnut and fig tart.   With lashings of Calvados.  The recipe called for a glass...

The figs are the first good crop I've had from a tree that I started from a cutting several years ago.   It is the sole survivor of abou...