Buse / byz / f
From Gabor: La Buse – French for buzzard. This overhead cable is a favourite perch for this bird. I crept round the corner in the car, and I was … Read More
More about the wildlife!
From Gabor: Mark set me a challenge to photograh a buzzard. This is my best effort. Unfortunately my camera has too much of a delay between pressing the button and … Read More
Lac de Rouffiac
From Gabor: Not far away is Lac de Rouffiac, a water-base adventure playground. As well as a plage, about 200 metres of real sand, it offers a large lake … Read More
a walk in the woods
From Gabor: The Dutch neighbours own a large area of woodland running down to the river at the bottom of the valley. A walk in these woods is a … Read More
looking at the wildlife
From Gabor: It’s raining, so I’ll tell you about the wildlife. Sitting outside, we regularly hear the calls of the local buzzards, who Mark tells me nest in the oak … Read More
we are being useful, honest!
From Gabor: It’s been a cool but pleasant morning, threatening to become warmer later. We’ve taken advantage to make some use of the tin of Hammerite we were asked to … Read More
Old Barn walls
There are 2 walls of an old barn left standing by the entrance drive to the house and earlier this year I started hacking back the ivy to expose the … Read More
Year by Year…
My favourite photo of the house from last year, and the background on my laptop until now, was this photo: Now a lot has changed in the past 12 months … Read More
The Terrace – Part 3
Ben completed the installation of the railings and we cleaned and started painting them. We had bought the Hammerite MetalMaster spray paint gun that is meant to give a 360 … Read More