The courgettes are coming, thick and fast, thin and fat, short and long, bright yellow and two shades of green, pale and dark. So, can tomatoes be far behind? A rhetorical question. The answer lies….in the soil, of course…and the behaviour of a climate...
A glut of fruit always produces a crisis, especially for those of the ‘waste not, want not’ school of home management. Composting excess fruit, or allowing the sheep to eat themselves sick on it, seems like a cop-out, like ducking responsibility towards...
Somewhere in the woods, between La Chaise and Chantepoule, there are now pairs of wild chickens, cock and hen couples that have escaped from the chicken caravan and its park. Perhaps as many as four pairs – or perhaps they are all dead. Hen escaping One reason...
The last ten days have been a terrible reminder of the fact that man proposes but God, gods or Nature, disposes. We react more often than we act. Death arrived suddenly amongst the lambs after worming. We had no means of knowing whether it was the strength of the... 
