A corner of France

It could be that we will be moving house some time later this year.   With this in mind we have been reviewing those things that we might ke...

Racked off the mead into demijohns today.  Initial tasings show great promise.  (See plastic cup to the left of picture)  It should be perfe...

French for mead is hydromel.   I have tried to make it before, but the homey I used was from a supermarket, and the result was not as I woul...

There was a vide maison in the adjacent village last weekend, basically a car boot sale in a house.   In this case it was to empty an old s...

We went to spend a day at St Malo with my sister.   There's a big wheel in place at the moment, and we took a ride on it.  Great views o...

I decided to pay special attention to brassicas this year.   I laid aside a bed for them, manured it and made sure it was watered.   I didn...

The electric power around here isn't all that reliable, with occasional outages, and many short drop-outs that are enough to get the UPS...