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Life scenes from La Chaise: Rain making rituals and fowl mysteries

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Rain making rituals and fowl mysteries. Sheer desperation is supposed to stimulate imagination, out of the box solutions - and so on. The temperatures were getting hotter, the grass browner, the heavy crop of fruit on the trees was not swelling into ripeness. Just waiting for fire and food. The recent spell of extremely hot weather has been our accepted explanation for the la...

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Life scenes from La Chaise: Urban sights for country eyes

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Monday, May 25, 2015. Urban sights for country eyes. So, Country Mouse has been in London for nearly two months! The London parks and squares are gloriously in flower, central London seems tidier than I remember it - less rubbish floating around but the same amount of indelible gum on the pavements. Ceanothus hides a London fence. And it gets gently lifted away. London's rubbish collection seems to ...

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Life scenes from La Chaise: April 2015

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Thursday, April 23, 2015. We rushed through France, on our way from Spain to England -. A stay of barely a week. Just time to empty suitcases, imagine the possible weather in London, re-pack, leave the restored baby Audi in the safe hands of Jerome,Clea,Alexandre and Audrey - and eventually the garage. And wait to be lifted out by Alexandre. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Life scenes from La Chaise: June 2015

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Drunk on clean air and silence. Nearly three weeks now that Country Mouse has been back in her habitat after a two month stay in London. Return timed with the onset of long delayed, long wanted rain, missed the May heat-wave that grilled the spring plants. Modestly declined any responsibility. Off to eat grass we go. Harvesting the Morellos is practically impossible. The t...

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Life scenes from La Chaise: Birds come, birds go

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Birds come, birds go. We feel very proud of ourselves at La Chaise. A third brood of swallows have hatched, and flown. Their parents built them a new nest, pre-used homes obviously not appropriate for this late brood. Always hungry, always crying. In local farming terms. In other words, the absence of prey for the nuisibles. Should never have left the pond.

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Life scenes from La Chaise: November 2014

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Thursday, November 13, 2014. It is fast becoming a habit, the migration of Percival Parents to warmer climes as the Dordogne winter hovers. I say 'hovers' deliberately, for this year the Indian summer lasted practically till the end of October. We left before it did. Here's a happy little olive tree. Wrought iron specialist of Riberac, a certain Monsieur Beau. There is no understanding plants.

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Life scenes from La Chaise: May 2015

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Monday, May 25, 2015. Urban sights for country eyes. So, Country Mouse has been in London for nearly two months! The London parks and squares are gloriously in flower, central London seems tidier than I remember it - less rubbish floating around but the same amount of indelible gum on the pavements. Ceanothus hides a London fence. And it gets gently lifted away. London's rubbish collection seems to ...

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Life scenes from La Chaise: And another unanswerable animal question...

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. And another unanswerable animal question. Why is it that some domesticated animals, those with the escapology gene can only find their way out? An escape route seems to be one way. They never return via the way they left. Mostly they do not come back. A lamb's way out. Edward, the Black Prince with Tiger, his ginger cat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Life scenes from La Chaise: August 2014

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Life scenes from La Chaise. Weekly diary of events on a country estate in deepest rural South West France. Sunday, August 17, 2014. Old Woman defies Weather Gods. Old Woman's best Weapon against Weather Gods. It started raining outside. Inside, I rolled up my sleeves, leaned over the Rayburn, embraced the flue pipe and removed its base cap. The bucket standing ready below was immediately filled with the offending soot. A couple of firm slaps to the flue pipe and more soot rattled down. But then, before I...