The hens are on strike. No longer do we – that is Audrey or Alex – find three to four eggs a day in the hen-house, at best there are two. After more than a year at La Chaise, with freedom to roam all over the front courtyard except for Audrey’s...
Still it has not rained. If one was on holiday at La Chaise, this is happiness. But we live here and have a golf course and around 60 sheep, with their lambs, to maintain. Green grass is essential for both. Fortunately, la grande Kim was free to shear the ewes,...
All in all, with only a leetle number stretching, we – John and I – have been away from La Chaise for the first five months of this year. We took three months in Spain, then a brief visit home end March, followed by nearly two months in London. The city... 
