That hare pie was a marvel. We found a recipe online from River Cottage Hugh. It called for two legs of hare, but we only had one. And a half …
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Tools were made and born were hands, every farmer understands. – William Blake
Most of us live in towns and don’t much notice what’s growing outside the city limits in the fields. We usually see them from our cars. We drive through them …
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8 jan
Being a Catholic, I have grown up with saints, sometimes called Saints. My parents didn’t care for them too much. They were much too level headed to get excited about …
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Borrowed Prayer
Wouldn’t we all like a miracle? A message from the cosmos? Something to tell us there was a point to it all? It wouldn’t take much. A wink from a …
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7 jan
The doorbell rang at 10 o’clock. Which is odd. Trying to find the front door of this house requires investigative skills that are not randomly available, definitely not in this …
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6 jan
Went for a walk today. One main difference with the Morvan it is flat. In about 15 kilometres I started at 198 metres high, went as low as 157, up …
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5 jan
Chassenat. The bathroom with our bedroom is larger than Merlin. Quite a bit larger in fact. And twice as high. The bedroom is larger than the bathroom and the livingroom …
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4 jan
Bourges. I couldn’t help myself for a quick stop in Bourges, church fatigue or not. On the way to Chassenat, where we would meet the owners of our house for …
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3 jan
Four men are gathered around our Renault Berlingo, which is high up on a lifting machine at a garage in Sully-sur-Loire. One of them is talking. He is the oldest …
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2 jan
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett describes the period we have been travelling through, the 12th century, but then in Southern England. The fictional town of Kingsbridge is the …
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