February has been an unexpectedly wonderful month, the spring flowers came early, the wild boar stayed sagely in the woods, the grass has started growing and lambs continue to be born in the barn. Everything flourished, even the camellias came out in flower –...
Spring is hovering in the woods at La Chaise – also the barn. The first of the 2019 lambs was born the day before grandson Nathan’s sixth birthday – overnight that came to be January 29th… Only just back from Spain, I went down to the lambing...
We have a wonderful range of fruit trees and bushes at La Chaise. There are the wild cherry trees that are the star heralds of spring. From the main road down to the Farmhouse there is an avenue of blossom. Any day I expect a group of Paris based Japanese to come...
In a rather lost corner of La Chaise meadows, land properly titled Les Fontenelles where there are indeed a few wet weather springs, there is a curious (to me) square of land that has been defined by the fencing. Half is grassland, half is scrub trees. Gradually we...
Obsessive, compulsive gardeners have many enemies – grass is a major one as it persists in growing everywhere it is not wanted for ornamental purposes whether in gravel-strewn paved or cemented walks. Those who are trying, sporadically, to ‘garden’... 
