The house has just been flooded and I can think of nothing that could bring me out of blogging hibernation quicker. Coming home from work and shopping to find neighbours sweeping water out of the front door has that sort of effect on me. A localised storm to end all storms hit us on Thursday evening. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Alps’
The Great Flood
Posted in a glimpse of France.., Desperate Housewives, Family Stuff, tagged Alps, flood, flooding, hail, house, storm, water on 24 July, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The demon shoe-eater
Posted in a glimpse of France.., Dogs, Farming, the Alps, tagged Alps, Ariegois, Dog, France, puppy, shoes on 5 March, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s hard to believe that this little chap.. looked this just a few weeks ago.. In a very short time he has become one of the more endearing aspects of the farm, as if 280 lambs weren’t enough. Don’t be taken in though. It may not seem like it, but but all this joie de vivre hides a darker [...]
Hitting the bottle
Posted in Farming, lamb and lambing, Uncategorized, Wild Things, tagged Alps, Dogs, Farming, France, lamb, lambing, sheep on 24 February, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I abandoned my dearly beloved for a week to visit my sister, but it was business as usual in the sheep barn. Lambs were born and bottle fed when necessary.. ..and any leftovers always went to the most hardworking mutt. As usual. Wait a minute. Since when did hanging out with the lambs mean preferential [...]
Too much snow?
Posted in a glimpse of France.., Family Stuff, the Alps, tagged Alps, children, French Alps, Mountain, snow on 8 February, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Living in the Alps means that we have a fair bit of snow and I suppose that by now everyone should be used to it. But when we had almost 30 inches in 24 hours even the dogs were at a loss. Then the unimaginable happened. Roads coudn’t be cleared fast enough, barn roofs collapsed (not ours) [...]
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