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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Ahhhhh! Chocolat!!

 Chocolate is addictive......












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Blogs we like to read.

  • Days on the Claise
    A Week Away in Belgium and the Netherlands - Highlights - We've just come back from a week away in Belgium and the Netherlands. We went because Simon really wanted to see the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseu...
  • wcs
    Lights, camera... - These are some of the lights that light up the Château de Chenonceau at night. Or at least they were. I wonder if they're still there or if they've been ...
  •  Living the life in Saint-Aignan
    Après la neige, le soleil - Just more snow photos today. I took these on my birthday in March 2006. We had been here for nearly three years, and we were getting used to the ...
  • a very grand pressigny
    DRINKING IT ALL IN - We have been away from our house in France for four and a half months. We were thoroughly entrenched in our UK life but by the time our departure was get...
  • a french garden
    Colour through the grey - At last some colour is coming into the garden with the spring bulbs. The water has returned to the little stream at the back of the garden and the daffodil...
  • Following Others' Footsteps
    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...
  • Loire Valley Nature
    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...
  • Our French Adventure
    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...
  • la petite-presse
    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...
  • The story of our life in and around Braye-sous-Faye
    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...
  • De la bonne bouffe
    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,...
  • Art en Saule
    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...
  • Chez Charnizay
    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...
  • It's a Cat's Life!!
    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...

Spotted on the Web

We collect links to interesting Natural History & Environmental stories that we spot on the Interweb...
this is where we draw your attention to them...
[and there is an archive page of the same name...
where you can also leave comments]

This one is for Amelia [A French Garden]...


Commercial bees threaten wild bees, say researchers...
"The trade in bees used for honey or to pollinate crops could have a devastating impact on wild bees and other insects, say scientists.

New measures are needed to stop diseases carried by commercial bees spilling over into the wild, says a University of Exeter team.

Evidence suggests bees bred in captivity can carry diseases that could be a risk to native species."
To read about this... follow this link

Japanese Knotweed:
Asbos for failure to control invasive plants...
"People who fail to control the spread of invasive non-native plants such as Japanese Knotweed could be fined or receive anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos), the UK government says."
To read about this... follow this link


Are food foragers unfairly maligned?
"In the past few years there has been a "wild food" boom with celebrity chefs heading for the great outdoors in search of fresh ingredients. So, how practical is it to live solely on wild food? And does spurning the supermarket, as some critics have claimed, make you just a bit annoying?"
To read about this... follow this link


Wildlife in the Aigronne and Touraine du Sud

Based at our house near Le Grand Pressigny, we are centrally placed between The Brenne & The Loire Anjou Touraine National Parks and the Sologne, enabling us to observe wild events and discover new [to us] insects, plants and birds.

We started this record in 2003, when we bought La Forge and from time to time we will be publishing the odd species list of what we've seen here at La Forge and in the immediate vicinity.

We've also been building a collection of finds, mainly from prehistory... we record those as well on the blog Touraine Flint.
As well as pictures on this site, we've been posting to flickr.

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

About our other, more occasional, bloggings... and other resources

We havent made any recent changes on our website....
but there you will find a nice web album of photos from around the house.
Click on the Deptford Pink to start the slideshow.

From there you can also find links to our other blogs...
Our 'foodie' blog De la bonne bouffe, where we are posting recipes, local taste discoveries and snippets on life in Touraine du Sud...

Our occasional blog Touraine Flint which focuses on the pre-history of the area and Man's effect on the land and the environment up to present times.

Also there Art en Saule, which is a record of the of the attempts at management of our six acre meadow.

And now the "Her Majesty" is at it at.... It's a Cat's Life!!

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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.

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