Showing posts with label Taponnat-Fleurignac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taponnat-Fleurignac. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

20/03/2018 Same route, same shops, and same view of a slightly different sunset !

Maximum temperature today 6C, minimum 0C.   Dry; 20 km/h North Easterly winds with up to 57 km/h gusts.  Bitterly cold winds, despite blue skies, we both felt colder today than the rest of winter!!
Last night, I missed the setting sun but liked the sky anyway!

All the below were taken as drive-by shots so some are a bit blurred!
Today just leaving home...

Lopsided trees presumably because of the overhead wires

 Winter wheat on both sides of the road...

The farm house in the distance...

another farm, ploughed fields, wonder what they will plant....

More winter wheat.

The small village of Taponnat-Fleurignac,....

as above

Possibly a cherry tree (some what blurred), though ours are not in flower yet, forsythia - the yellow shrub in front.

Same old supermarket slightly different view....

Heading back home past the hardware section of  Leclerc, service station in the front.

Railway crossing entering Taponnat....

The new boulangerie - shut; it was lunch time !

More forsythia seen on the the way home.

Tonight's sunset.  Guess by now you have noticed all my sunsets are pretty much taken from the same spot outside in the road!!


I have a new blog entirely committed to our feathered friends.


Wednesday, March 7, 2018

07/03/2018 Gone shopping.......

Maximum temperature today 11C, minimum 4C.   11 mm of rain measured this morning and we have had some more rain today; 17 km/h North Westerly winds with up to 50 km/h gusts.  (316 mm of rain so far from the 1st of January).
 Looking across the newly ploughed fields, not sure how they have managed with all the rain we have had.

Eglise Saint-Remi de Fleurignac.  We dropped some bottles off nearby so I hopped out of the car to take this photo.

Built in 1845 This modest church of Romanesque origin has a single nave. 

The sky is getting darker by the minute.

Crossing the railway line,

Welcome to Leclerc supermarket...

I always love this reflection of the sign and the sky.

Inside in the entrance are parts of what was a working mill.

Driving home via Pont d'Agris in the rain that arrived while we were shopping...

The wet road home through the scenic route...

as above...

as above.

Thursday, February 15, 2018

15/02/2018 Nothing much new here except it is a bit warmer!!

Maximum temperature today 14C, minimum 6C.  16 mm of rain measured last night. South Westerly winds; 17 km/h with up to 37 km/h gusts.  
A trip for both of us to the dentist, no problems thankfully.

Interesting house next door to the dentist.

The railway bridge over the road.  Traffic from the other side has right of way but not always adhered to!

Driving off the end of the world 😉

Driving into Taponnat-Fleurignac...

The Mairie  (The mayor's office)...

at the back of the town is this huge property, not a clue who lives there but...

The drive entrance has a huge gateway of which this was all I managed to get as we drove by!

Fleurignac, one of the small villages in the commune of Taponnat-Fleurignac

The Lavoir of  Fleurignac.  Thanks goodness for washing machines, I cannot imagine washing clothes here as they did in the old days in winter, and with floods as it has been this year.

European robin (Erithacus rubecula),

Great tit (Parus major) and Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).



If you should be interested after an 18 month break from my blog 'My Life Before the Charente'  I have at last added a new post 😊

Monday, October 30, 2017

30/10/2017 All photos taken from the car as we were driving from place to place shopping.

Maximum temperature 13C, minimum 6C.  19 km/h NW winds, 48km/h gusts very chilly. 3 mm of rain measured this morning
St Mary...

as above.

Men at work.

My pet hate, wind turbines (so many birds are killed by them....

as above.

More men at work.

La Poterie.

Valence.

Saint-Angeau.

La Rochefoucauld with the chateau on the skyline.

Taponnat-Fleurignac,

Almost home our neighbour's walnut tree showing off its autumn colours. Sorry a bit blurry!


For those following our South African holiday part 7 is now HERE