Showing posts with label Rochechouart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rochechouart. Show all posts

Saturday, June 15, 2019

15/06/2017 Join us on a drive in the country yesterday ending up with a delightful luncheon. Part one.

Maximum temperature today 20C, minimum 10C.  Rain measured this morning 4.  19km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 43 km/h.  

Rainfall now up to 343 mm this year almost 100 mm of this is in the last fortnight.  Still far less than last year but this is about the same as 2017.

We went for a drive yesterday and I planned on putting all the photos into in one blog, but when I discovered just over 30 were useable, I decided it would have to be two posts with our slow connection.  Part two is around the town and in and around the church.

The countryside is so green,

Somehow the farmers have managed to bale their hay despite the rain.

Rochechouart in the distance.

Rochechoart chateau.

Driving past the church in Biennac.

A very twisty road  into Saint Auvent,

Auberge de la Vallee de la Gorre in Saint Auvent.

The list of menus...

We picked the €19 one.

Inside the restaurant.

We had a window seat and I thought this view was pretty good!

My choice rosé wine.

Nigel's starter, sautéed mushrooms...

 Smoked duck salad, my choice.  A meal on its own!


Nigel chose Chicken breast with a ginger sauce...

and I had salmon with a mango hollandaise sauce.

I finished off with cheese (eat your heart out David, I was very good and only had a little of each!)

Nigel had apple crumble.

Part two to follow very soon - holiday photos slowly getting there!!!!


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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

16/04/2019 Few photos taken but trying to catch up......

Maximum temperature today 17C, minimum 8C.  Rain measured 9 mm.  22  km/h North-easterly winds with gusts up to 51 km/h.
Looks like it is warming up for Easter; Yay.

We are both on the mend, I am still coughing and Nigel is having headaches other than that we are just fine!

Driving to Limoges 3 April...

Passing Rochechouart chateau...

Almost back home, we just got in the door before the rain reached the house.

Bee in the garden.

Shield bug.

Californian poppy.

Wasp.

Evening moon 09 April.

The neighbour's poppies framed through the fence.

Zooming in on the red poppy above.

Whitebells, the blue ones are still in bud.

Our delightful bird seed thief, Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus).



Thursday, February 14, 2019

14/02/2019 Happy Valentines Day. A drive to Limoges and I cannot resist our neighbours lambs!

Maximum temperature today 15C, minimum 4C.  Dry;  If the forecast is correct we have a week at least of sunshine 🌞 15km/h South-easterly winds with gusts up to 30 km/h. 

Taking the back roads to Limoges, the trees are mostly still bare.

Passing a lake near Rochechouart.

I just liked the view!

Arriving at Limoges. We do not visit unless we have to, we stick to the country!

Sunset at home.

The lambs in the small field on the other side of the fence from our Veggie garden...

These are the younger ones.

Full of bounce...

At the milk bar...

as above.

So very tired.

Common crane (Grus grus) returning to the North and migrating over France...

we are lucky enough to be living under their flight path...

and we have seen several thousand in the last few days.




I have updated my bird blog HERE.


Friday, September 7, 2018

07/09/2019 A few photos from the garden and elsewhere.

Maximum temperature today 25C, minimum 13C.  Rain that was not forecast yesterday but very welcome, 9mm; 10km/h North-westerly winds with up to 27 km/h gusts. 

Looking down one of the roads in Rochechouart....

and I just liked this old gate in the same town.

A road crossing in Chassenon.

Six sparrows all trying to take a bath!

and a loner.

Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta).

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).

Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea)

Colorado beetle the big pest! (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), 

House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata).

Cosmos and bug...

Cosmas and crab spider.

Autumn daffodil/crocus (Sternbergia lutea) and bug.

Californian Poppy.

Rose buds.

Sweet Potato flower.

Violas, these have been amazing, flowering all year from early spring and they are now reseeding.

We are away from tomorrow for the next week and as Penny from 'SnapThat' so aptly said, we will be unplugged.  No computer, and almost no phone contact.
Bonne semaine. À bientot.




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has been updated HERE