This year’s first lamb

This year’s first lamb

The first lamb of 2013 – born with the new moon overnight Sunday 10th February The lake at danger levels after the winter...

Constraints on country shopping

The weather is decidedly beyond the pale as a subject for discussion, even so far so sunny this Monday.  Were it a child, one would confine it to the naughty step for days.  So that is enough of that for this week at least. Last Thursday evening I went down to Tocane...

Gods, vets and pregnant sheep

The weather gods are still fighting over La Chaise.  January has always had two faces.  The Blue Faced Hag has, possibly temporarily, given way to the various gods of winds and rain.  Temperatures in the last ten days went into double figures and, not liking the...

Gods and rural paranoia

The gods, the weather gods are angry with us! Never should I have mentioned the mildness of this year’s beginning.  The Blue-Faced Hag, ‘Cailleach Bheur’ the Celtic goddess of winter, woke up, dumped some 10 cm of snow on La Chaise, its fields and...

Weather-wise

Weather-wise, the first days of the year have not been too bad.  The temperatures have been reasonable, the rain moderate – with a few exceptional days when it managed to get in under the roof tiles.  The main feature of this past fortnight has been the mildness of...