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Well, today the last of the guests left - I think it is the first time that all the gites have been unoccupied together since March. The last lot of guests were all French - the Armistice bank holiday fell handily on a Tuesday this year, so quite a few people also take the Monday [...]

My 7 year old daughter, Kristen, is off to yet another birthday party this afternoon. Children’s birthdays in France are not such big events as they are in the UK - well, at least here in the sticks, anyway. Instead of competing to ask the most number of other children possible, only a handful of [...]

I get my annual delivery of firewood about now and of course once delivered, it has to be stacked (neatly of course, we have to keep up with the standard of the French neighbours) to dry out for use the following year. I usually get through about 5 or 6 cordes of wood (depending on [...]

Not just for the wonderful weather we enjoyed here yesterday - 25°c and very sunny . The oldest resident of the hamlet came home today for the first time in 2 months. Maria Garner is 82 and had a second stroke in August. Since then she has been in a nursing home since then having [...]

The nights have been a lot colder this Autumn than in previous years. We’ve even had a couple of light frosts which is very unusual. September and October are lovely months to take a holiday in Brittany - the weather is usually quite good, not too much rain, the colours of the trees fantastic, and [...]

Cider is the local drink of Brittany. Many people who live in the countryside have apple trees and every year they pick their apples for the purpose of making their own cider. The apple trees are stripped in October and the apples laid out on black plastic sheets for 3 weeks or so in the [...]