“I can’t lend you my jacket, because clothes moths have eaten a hole in the shoulder” said my brother-in-law with a Gallic shrug. I looked over at my husband, unsure whether to be amused or dismayed, but he seemed to be in deep thought, calculating his remaining options. As a ‘Freeman of London’ (a title [...]
Archive for June, 2007
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Posted in Family Stuff on 17 June, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The village
Posted in the Alps, Village Life on 15 June, 2007 | 5 Comments »
This is my village. Can you see how the sun reflects off the walls and red terracotta roofs? Doesn’t it look peaceful, at the foot of that mountain, far from the rat-race and the trauma of urban living? A haven of tranquillity, a place where its inhabitants, all 150 of them on a full-time basis, [...]
Down…..again
Posted in Village Life on 15 June, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Quick! My internet connection seems to be showing a glimmer of life. Who knows whether this is due to Divine Intervention or whether my provider finally managed to get those spare parts from China. To be fair, violent storms have been hitting us in waves every day for the last week or so and have [...]
To pastures new
Posted in Farming on 9 June, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I stepped back and felt a whip crack across the back of my legs. I yelped and hurled myself forward as much in surprise as from pain. The electric fence looked innocuous and I cursed at having forgotten its presence. Erected to keep wild boar out of the barley, it was also efficient against absent-minded [...]
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