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We have spent this morning making Frelon (Hornet) traps for our garden. The Frelons here in France are very common, along now with Asian Frelons which are currently moving their way across France. They give a very nasty sting, which all of us, including Xavier at only 18 months, have experienced. My dad is highly [...]

Well the extremely cold weather in the last few weeks has caused the last dozen of our butternut squash to suffer. Five made it through the cold, but the rest didn’t do so well. They all have a little frost damage or areas where they are starting to rot, so today we chopped up a [...]

Well at last I have managed to get out into the garden, the snow has almost disappeared and the temperatures have improved to a balmy 8 degrees. I had tried to plant some more peppers into the heated propagators last week, although it was minus 10 the sun was shining beautifully, so I thought I [...]

Well the Limousin (our region of France) was officially declared the coldest place in France last night. We hit a low of minus 18, apparently the coldest it has been since 1985! We have a small weather station, and the receptor is underneath our covered terrace, at 8.30 when I got downstairs it was still [...]

Well we’ve had snow on the ground since last Monday, and the snow that hit the UK hit us this morning. Hubby woke at 6am to nothing, by 6.15am the snow was coming down and it didn’t stop until 4pm. The temperatures overnight were minus 11, and even at 10.30am it was still minus 6 [...]