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Blogs we like to read.
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The Ghost of 2 Days Before Christmas Past - In the years when we owned our house in Preuilly sur Claise but still lived in London the 23rd December was the day we travelled. In 2006 we flew into Li...
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Like sands through the hourglass... - So here we are at another Christmas Eve (it's not Christmas and stop calling me Eve!). We'll spend the day puttering in the kitchen, mostly. Ken's headin...
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Christmas Eve in Saint-Aignan - It's cheese day here, at least at our house. That means a cheese fondue, made using Alpine cheeses — French cheeses in this case. These cheeses would be ca...
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THERE'S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT - For some time now I have been thinking about winding up the blog. I can hear my mum saying "there's no time like the present". She was a wise woman!...
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May flowers - May is a time for poppies in the garden. We let the poppies self seed and then give stray ones a helping hand to find more acceptable positions but you hav...
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More criminality and happier things! - The slow process of implementing the law continues. My second appointment with the nice Gendarme Colon was even more lengthy and really did make me feel li...
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Cardinal Beetles Pyrochroidae - Cardinal Beetles are a small family of bright scarlet beetles. The larvae are rather flattened and live under bark, predating other insects. Larva of a ca...
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The circle of fire - part 1: closing the circle - My interest in the French transatlantic liner *La Touraine* started with a small piece of newsprint that we found hidden in the masonry of our chimney. Tha...
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Season’s Greetings… - It's been a long time! However, although the I may not be finding the time, inspiration or inclination to write this blog I always try to find some time ...
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Merry Christmas - Wishing all our readers a very Merry Christmas and the very best for 2017. Keep reading our Blog for exciting times ahead for us in 2017
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The tortoise and the hare - I sowed a row of "Guernsey" parsnips in the *potager *on 30th April this year. After a prolonged sulk they germinated. On 4th September I had six little pa...
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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 r...
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Wishing for blue skies - The forecast says that we are going to be in for a week of colder weather; we might even see a few snow flurries. It would be lovely if we got a week of th...
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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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