The view from the potting shed. An unconventional life in the French Pyrenees. The greenhouse is full to bursting but germination is slow and plant growth is sluggish. Outside the soil is still too cold to risk sowing seeds and is mostly still covered in black plastic to try to warm it up and to keep the weeds under control. The aforesaid weeds seem to have no difficulty in romping away in their usual thuggish manner.

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Slow living in the french pyrénées. A view from Ariège . the other south of France. Thursday, 27 December 2012. Heaven forfend, what an unthinkable thought - if I start seriously talking about moving from here please have me tightly bound and locked up immediately. But this blog is on the march.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Here is a review of the recipe from. Makes 2 loaves of bread.

About Yorkshire, Laroque and us. Struggling down and up Sutton Bank. August 5, 2015 by margaret21. Looking down from Sutton Bank. We went to Sutton Bank. The main road leading to the top has a gradient of 1 in 4, caravans are banned, and HGVs regularly get caught out on the way up. Yet the summit is a mere 298m. A glider is towed upwards on a windy day.

An authentic country cottage in French Catalonia, where the Pyrenees meet the Mediterranean. Tuesday, 25 November 2014.