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A Very Merry Berry Christmas 24 Dec 2012 | 10:32 pm
Christmas eve and the countryside is stark and brown. Mist rolls in from the river filling the valleys below, but up here on the high ridges the early morning sun hangs low in the winter skies string...
Merry Berry Holiday 22 Dec 2011 | 03:25 am
The hedgerows and woodlands of the Quercy are shining with lustrous treasure. Tangles of wild rosehips drip with dew and glint in the early morning sunlight, whilst flame coloured pyracanthas blaze a...
Warm November In The Quercy 25 Nov 2011 | 02:25 am
Radishes In The Market The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and as the church bells pealed in solemn remembrance I stood in twenty-two degrees of glorious sunshine in the mark...
Spring In The Quercy 13 Mar 2011 | 04:57 am
Gariguette Strawberries Glorious sunshine gilds the drab landscape as spring finally makes her debut. In the forest glades dark carpets of leaves are punctuated by a scattering of violets, like a...
Book Review – The Tapestry Of Love by Rosy Thornton 24 Jan 2011 | 11:06 pm
This delightful tale is a total submersion into a life that is altogether different, the French country way of life, slow, sweet and sometimes stingingly sad. Catherine is a resilient and totally ind...
Chocolate Cranberry Tart 3 Jan 2011 | 03:15 am
Chocolate Cranberry Tart All Christmassed out? Up to your ears in leftovers? Turn them to stunningly good account. Cold turkey is of course old hat nowadays – to mix my metaphors thoroughly – and ...
Easy Peasy Pheasant Game Pie 3 Jan 2011 | 02:59 am
Game Pie Serves eight hungry hunters Boxing Day, and despite your massive efforts in the kitchen during the previous twenty-four hours, more food is required to feed your healthy-walking, out-huntin...
Christmas In The Quercy 25 Dec 2010 | 05:47 am
Cenac In The Snow Dawn revealed a sparkling scene. The huge pines at the bottom of the valley were veiled in a delicate frost, junipers shook the icing sugar from their needle sharp leaves, oaks bowe...
Autumn In The Quercy 2 Nov 2010 | 10:40 pm
Cenac Through The Mist Mists drift past the dripping hills, shrouding the oaks and walnuts in their delicate, damp veils. As they shift and part shafts of topaz light pierce the scene and a breathta...
High Summer In The Quercy 9 Aug 2010 | 11:37 pm
Quercy Peaches Summertime – and the living is easy… Okay so it’s not very original, but in countries where summers are hot, harvests are lavish and lazy rivers run full of fish, it’s so very true – ...
