Author Archives: Val

Trap Happy

Posted on 27 April, 2011 by Val

Job Done! Both female kitten-cats (hastily named Fifi and Lula, because the vet does like to have names to put on the animals’ records, and we used up the Big Cat/Little Cat/Mother Cat/Tom Cat options long ago) are at this … Continue reading →

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Where the Wild Things Were

Posted on 26 April, 2011 by Val

Having given up work with the intention of freeing ourselves from the Tyranny of the Deadline, we seem to do a remarkably good job of creating them for ourselves. The latest one is my next planned trip to Ingurland, this … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Road

Posted on 14 April, 2011 by Val

Well my thinking may be both cheap and lazy, but it clearly isn’t influential! We have just returned from the agri-store at Souvigny with 45 x 1.8m fence posts, 3 x 50m rolls of 95mm stock fencing, and all the … Continue reading →

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More or Less

Posted on 10 April, 2011 by Val

One of the problems with me buggering off to Ingurland so frequently to revel in my still fresh-feeling Grandmotherhood, is that Simon gets to spend a lot of time on his own. And when he spends a lot of time … Continue reading →

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Grandmother’s Footsteps

Posted on 3 April, 2011 by Val

When I was a child, with all the time in the world and an empty road to play in with my friends, one of our favourite street games was “Peep Behind the Curtain” (aka Grandmother’s Footsteps; Red Light, Green Light). … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Pork Pie

Posted on 19 March, 2011 by Val

Well that’s it. The pigs have gone. We are sans porcs. On Wednesday we took our Three Little Piggies to their new home at Camping Moulin de la Geneste in the Corrèze, where they have found new employment as Entertainers … Continue reading →

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