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The end of glyphosate: French government online website opens to share alternatives

by ajhFebruary 10, 2019
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Happy New Year. Here's to the Robin

by ajhJanuary 1, 2019
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An unlikely partner

by ajhDecember 3, 2018
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One Hundred Years On: Verdun, Man and Mule

by ajhNovember 9, 2018
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France

by ajhOctober 27, 2018 3

France's agricultural land fast diminishing despite environmental policies

Where have all the crops gone?  And the cows?  A vast stretch of farmland up here in our part of Normandy has been laid waste in the next village, the earth churned up in places and, elsewhere, smoothed out like a pall under the autumn sky.

Pall i…

Hunting Season in France

Out for a walk this beautiful Sunday afternoon I took the lane along the corn field. The upright cornstalks tower over your head and the slight wind rustles their drying leaves - the only noise to be heard in this haven away from the urban crush. Unt...
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Normandy injects €12million into ambitious Methanisation Plan

Roads mired in muck, villagers stiffling with smells: It's a sorry litany of stories up here in my neck of the woods in Normandy when it comes to anaerobic digesters.  Normandy only has 6 such installations so far, two of which are in my neighbourhoo...
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Air Pollution: Is Paris Gasping? And the rest of the world?

The Eiffel Tower beckons us from a distance as we drive in to Paris on the motorway from Normandy.   Her graceful shape will never cease to give me that moment’s thrill when approaching - the same thrill I had when I first arrived in this city decade...
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by ajhFebruary 10, 2019 0

The end of glyphosate: French government online website opens to share alternatives

Le 1er février le gouvernment a mis en ligne le centre de ressources pour accompagner les agricultuers  dans la sortie du glyphosate.

Vous y trouverez des techniques alternatives, ex. association de plantes compagnes gélives sur colza; la herse ét…

France's agricultural land fast diminishing despite environmental policies

Where have all the crops gone?  And the cows?  A vast stretch of farmland up here in our part of Normandy has been laid waste in the next village, the earth churned up in places and, elsewhere, smoothed out like a pall under the autumn sky. Pall i...
by ajh

Hunting Season in France

Out for a walk this beautiful Sunday afternoon I took the lane along the corn field. The upright cornstalks tower over your head and the slight wind rustles their drying leaves - the only noise to be heard in this haven away from the urban crush. Unt...
by ajh

L'avenir de l'eau Bassin Seine-Normandie : consultation publique

For local residents and beyond: your opinion counts.  

From 2 November until 2 May 2019 : Public consultation of official documents concerning the future management of water and flooding in the Seine basin and in water courses along the Norm...

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Poetry

by ajhJanuary 1, 2019 2

Happy New Year. Here's to the Robin

by ajhDecember 3, 2018 0

An unlikely partner

by ajhOctober 14, 2018 0

October : The Hunt

by ajhSeptember 2, 2018 1

Narcissus

by ajhAugust 12, 2018 0

House of Shells

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Desert Hyena

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Fiction

by ajhNovember 9, 2018 3

One Hundred Years On: Verdun, Man and Mule

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Train

[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the...

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Arctic Shaman's Seance

The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket.  The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the singing hut by the large narwhal ivory which jutted up out of the roof; it whistled when the wind raced over the ice, he’d said. ...
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Dame Carpenter: Chapter 3

  After her fortuitous meeting with King Louis XIV, Dame Carpenter is now 'living' in the oil painting along with the Comte, but finds her new incarnation challenging. She continues her story. For Chapter 1, by ajh
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