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Hunting Season in France

by ajhOctober 14, 2018
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October : The Hunt

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

by ajhOctober 11, 2018
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Normandy injects €12million into ambitious Methanisation Plan

by ajhSeptember 10, 2018
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France

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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…

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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Agricultural land prices: France and Europe

New figures out from Eurostat on 21 March show that the most expensive agricultural land in some 20 European Union countries lies in he Netherlands, fetching an average of €63.000 euros per hectare (€791 for rental), and in the region of Liguria in I...
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by ajhOctober 14, 2018 0

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…

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...

by ajh

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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New figures for agricultural land, France. Dirt cheap?

Official figures are just out - 4 July - giving the average market value of agricultural land in France (2017). Prices are in Euros per hectare (hectare = ‘are’ in French). A hectare is 10.000 square metres. Consult the grid here. https://www.legi...
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Poetry

by ajhOctober 14, 2018 0

October : The Hunt

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Narcissus

by ajhAugust 12, 2018 0

House of Shells

by ajhJuly 28, 2018 0

Desert Hyena

by ajhMay 26, 2018 0

Ghost Husband

by ajhMarch 6, 2018 1

Sirene

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Fiction

by ajhNovember 11, 2017 3

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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