19/12/2009
New material added to 16 April 2003
[Posted 15/11/2009]
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Blogs we like to read.
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The Barbegal Mills - The Barbegal aqueduct and mills are situated in Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, near Arles. Often hailed as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical ...
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Tails of cats - They're called cattails where I come from, bulrushes in the UK, and *massettes* here in France according to Wikipedia. I had to look that up. These grow ...
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April yellows - Eastern France is shivering this week. And here in western France we are also feeling chilly. The good news is that we haven't yet had temperatures down to...
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In praise of Eleagnus umbellata - No surprise here! Eleagnus umbellata is very popular with all the bees because it produces an abundant supply of nectar. I need no other reason for plantin...
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THINGS COME IN THREES - My mum always used to say that things come in threes. What she meant was that you never get just one problem at a time to deal with. Three come along...
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Swoboda and the radical lawyer - *La Touraine* with two masts In April 1 1915, Raymond Swoboda was charged with the sabotage of the liner* La Touraine* on which he was a passenger. Sub...
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Trichodes spp Checkered Beetles - In the Loire Valley there are two striking checkered beetles that look very similar and are quite commonly encountered during the summer. Both are red and...
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Struggles of a Senior. - I hate shop windows, and mirrors, more and more. Who is that old man, who looks more and more like my father, and seems to follow me wherever I go? One adv...
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Season's Greetings - That was the year that was... - **More pics to be added later when our broadband is functional.** I can't quite believe that it has been a whole year since my last blog. Such a lot ha...
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New Blog - You may think we have gone completely... NO we have started another blog which we will be completing every now and then... This can be found at http://more...
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DIY flan - When we saw silicone flan case moulds in our favourite low-cost store, we bought one. Fruit flans, we thought. Macerated fruit from our home-made liqueurs,...
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A name changer... - One of our other blogs... *Touraine Flint* has changed its name and header... it is now... *Following Others' Footsteps.* The change came about when we re...
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Spring Intermezzo - A brief intermezzo before we post the second part of the Sculptures in Touraine exhibition. After seemingly endless grey skies and rain we've suddenly been...
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Tried and tested uses of goose fat.... Wot?? - Being rather a rotund feline with a good appetite, I was reading the *Days on the Claise* post of this morning about the Touraine Goose... L'Oie de Touraine...
Guided Tours in a lovely limo!
Susan&Simon from Days on the Claise have another blog, Loire Valley Nature, which is "designed to be used as an English language natural history web resource for lowland central France."
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
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They also run Loire Valley Time Travel and can arrange one or two day tours with a knowledgeable guide. They have a blog linked to that site at Loire Valley Time Travel
Please note:
The early listings were only a few observations with an entry and usually no record of numbers!
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook'
Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
The weather in Tours at the moment:
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