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New visitor 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Went into the barn earlier this week to start up the ride-on mower. There was a flutter in the rafters. I called Niall and we had a closer look. It turned out to be a much larger bat than the tiny pip...
Sky lantern aftermath 17 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
They are beautiful when all lit up and floating off - sky lanterns that is. However, earlier in the month we saw spent lanterns rather than their fairy tale flight. The classic view of sky lanterns [...
Castles in the air 11 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Over the summer the Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre, which we wrote about in our last post, is hosting a small exhibition about imaginary castles in literature, art and popular culture. Entitled "Si l...
Twilight of the Middle Ages 6 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Fougeres-sur-Bievre is an amazing place. A very late mediaeval castle it was built in the last quarter of the 15th century, not long before the kings and queens of France -- and their senior courtiers...
Early August garden 2 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
You can tell it is August as, at the front of our house we have a Rose of Sharon [Hibiscus syriacus] bush, and it is now in full flower. Originally they hail from India and China and they do very well...
Fresco or wall painting? 27 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
For the majority of people they are often seen as the same thing and all too often the terms are interchanged even in informational literature. In addition, sorting one from the other is difficult. Yo...
Hollyhocks, a toad and a butterfly 21 Jul 2013 | 08:46 pm
At the front of the house is a small apron of elderly concrete. Last summer while I was collecting seeds from the seed pods of our hollyhocks some "escaped" and ended up in some small cracks. Concret...
Waste "knot" 17 Jul 2013 | 07:46 pm
Recently we wrote about the stained glass at St Georges-sur-Loire. The current building dates to the Romanesque period [11th century] with early Mediaeval [12th/13th century] extensions. However, the ...
Tour de France at Montrésor 13 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Yesterday, Friday the Tour de France was in our area. Stage 12 had finished in Tours and stage 13 ran from Tours to finish at Saint-Amand-Montrond. Part of the route lay along the Indre river valley a...
Tinka does cute 9 Jul 2013 | 09:10 pm
Tinka, as friends and regular readers of our blog know, is as mad a proverbial box of frogs. She likes cars -- trying to get her out when we open the doors to go somewhere can lead to a serious chase ...
