Changeover days
Saturday is the busiest day for the gites, I ask holiday makers to vacate their gite before 10am and the new clients are able to arrive from 4pm onwards. I have five houses (total floor surface of 320m2) with a total of 11 bathrooms to clean. Beds to [...]
Little Egret
Today one of the gite clients went to St Jacut sur Mer, the lady is a keen bird watcher and had spotted a bird that at first she thought was a Heron, but there were a group of them fishing in the sea. She asked me if I [...]
Gardens
The gardens have really taken over this year, we had a dry and sunny April, but then it rained a great deal during May, June and July. I have 1.7 hectaires of land here (approximately 4 acres) and also lots of it is lawned (4.5 hours of mowing [...]
Harvest
In our commune (village) there are 1000 habitants, so not so big, however there are 34 farms in the commune – so a large proportion of farmers. My partner, Yves, is a dairy farmer with around 50 hectares (100 acres) and 45 milking cows. Most of his fields [...]
Leicster Spokes Cycle Club
Last week, Leicester Spokes Cycle Club stayed in 3 of the gites, Cerise, Fraise and Pomme. 15 cyclists made up the group, and they visited the area using the local cycle paths, disused railway lines and canal paths and also the trains to go further afield. Some of [...]
Welcome
Welcome to my blog. A short history of why I am here : I was working in the computer industry in England with two small children Elizabeth and Hugh (2 and 4 at the time) and never quite seeing enough of them. I had a nanny, so they [...]




