hey ho, hey ho…it’s off to work we go!

1st April is normally known for All Fools Day or Jour du Poisson here in France…for us it’s Day 1 !! We signed for the house yesterday afternoon so it is ours now, which is a bit of a relief as we’ve had our roofer mending the leaks and replacing rotten timber all last week…so

Remembering why we are here!

After our horrendous experience with Harriett and 5 days later loosing Monty the 20+ year old dog I found at the side of the road our heads really dropped. We also had a run of folk coming into the rentals that really shouldn’t have tried to ‘do’ Normandy in a day and a half we

UNESCO and Sheep Shearing!

I haven’t had the time to get to do a blog for a while – quite a lot has happened since I last visited here! Mr Willerby my incredible Jack Russell (The Irish pocket Jack) managed to have his evil way with Urenee on Utah Beach – the result 4 fabulous little Jacks – Urenee

where have you been

As a matter of interest I did this map just to see where I have been in the world and discover I have actually only visited 10% of the world… and here’s me thinking I’m reasonably well travelled… shows how big the world actually is! Must get Mike my husband to do this as in

international art model!

One of our roosters is an international art model… how cool is that! I didn’t know anything at all about it until this email arrived Tansy, I thought you might be interested in knowing that at least one of your roosters is now an international art model. We liked how colorful they were, so took

6th June d- day celebrations in Normandy

D Day 6th June 1944 – d-day 6th June 2010 66 years on… This is the 7th year we’ve had a WW2 veteran stay in our home here in Normandy not 10 miles from where he landed that fateful day 66 years ago. Harry now almost 86 is getting frail – but during the week we met lots of others to include one ramrod straight Screaming Eagle 93 years old that still buys and sells shares on the market everyday! A former Royal Scot who came through Normandy in a Churchill Tank…

cute little lamb?… more like a full on battering ram!

Claries a cute little lamb? No sorry folks she’s now a full on battering ram…she’s actually quite powerful and also wilful! It’s going to be a challenge to keep her, I’m wondering if I need to find another to keep her company and maybe her desire to be with us and especially Mr Willerby may

Llamas together at last and fox attacks…

The big day arrived yesterday, Esme was allowed into Fernando’s field. For the past week I have let Esme into the other big field with the goats so she and Fernando could touch noses, (in fact Fernando could get half his body through the rails and nuzzle her neck), so with it 6 weeks to

Goose and goat, Jacks and lamb plus a 16 year old Burmese cat!

Easter Chicks, Goose Eggs and playful lambs plus the dilemma of killing pigs

Poodle Parlour & blood test

Rudi has had his spring cut… 1st day of Spring and he’s all spruced up!! Poor boy was getting terrible hot under his Bob Marley look a like get up… his coat was starting to get dreadlocks! He has Toilette 1st day Spring… always for 6th June week (his appointment is 2nd June this year)