Train
Fiction, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]The short story entitled Le Train which you can read on the…
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Isolation and Reciprocity
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookThere is much talk of desertification of the countryside in France, with people leaving for the big towns and cities;
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Mess, manure, and anaerobic digesters
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookA messy subject, but important for our environment and economics. Manure is still massively under-exploited. Alone, it is a fertilizer
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France’s environmental dilemma
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookGreat laws; too bad they’re not applied Two expert reports on the state of the environment in France were published
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Glyphosate: the War on Weeds
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]The five-acre field up our road stretched out like a yellow pall under the sky, desiccated. The local farmer had
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I’m All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit.
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookAhoy there over the Channel. Let’s face it: this is no ‘no fault’ divorce: the UK’s legendary lukewarm reluctance
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To Bee or not to Bee
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookIf you went down to our woods eight years ago you’d have heard and seen ten beehives amongst the birches.
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May Day, rickets, and the Forêt de Brotonne
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookOn May the 1st we took to the woods. If you go down a track in the Forêt de Brotonne
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Leprosy and La Chapelle Saint Thomas
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookThe small Leper colony in the woods down the hill with its Saint Thomas Chapel dates back to the 12th Century. We have been coming here on our walks for the last 15 years. It is surrounded by a high flint wall now taken over by the rampant vegetation.
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Alternative medecine: moles
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookOn the barbed wire fence by the farm up the road we counted 120 moles strung up in the sun
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Glow Worm
Normandy Notebook, PoetryCup in hand I take my tea at midnight down a darkening track lush chestnut oak and elm hang heavy