For the 9th consecutive year, our neighbourhood, Les Grouets, held a bread-baking day at part of the French national fête du pain celebrations. Norbert, the owner of the century-old wood-fired oven, starts heating it four days beforehand. Local children bring along their brioches on Friday but the main celebration is on Sunday. I took along two …
Monthly Archives: May 2015
The Little Nursery – La petite pépinière
Each time we go past this little nursery, I’m intrigued so today I stopped and took a photo. My nursery is nothing like this one! It even has a front-door bell. Chaque fois que nous passons devant cette petite pépinière je suis intriguée donc aujourd’hui je me suis arrêtée pour prendre une photo. La mienne …
Crédit Blésois
I noticed this building in Blois for the first time today. Despite my research I was not able to find out if the Crédit blésois was simply a local bank or a state-owned pawnshop. J’ai remarqué ce bâtiment pour la première fois aujourd’hui à Blois. Malgré mes recherches je n’ai pas pu savoir si le …
The Peace Rose – La rose de la paix
The peace rose has a lovely story. To quote Wikipedia: In early 1945 Meilland wrote to Field Marshal Alan Brooke (later Viscount Alanbrooke), the principal author of the master strategy that won the Second World War, to thank him for his key part in the liberation of France and to ask if Brooke would give his …
The Hunting Lodge – Le pavillon de chasse
It’s not a hunting lodge, of course, but it is a place to lodge hunters! There are lots of these little structures in Sologne for hunters to hide in. There were about ten in a row in this particular area that we cycled past on Châteaux à vélo itinerary.#7. Ce n’est pas un pavillon de …
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A sluice gate in Sologne – Une vanne en Sologne
Sologne is full of marshland and ponds. Dykes have been added along with sluice gates to fill and empty ponds as needed. The second photo shows a dried pond. La Sologne est pleine de marais et d’étangs. On a rajouté des digues et des vannes pour remplir et vider les étangs au besoin. La deuxième …
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The Killer Moth – Le papillon tueur
Jean Michel notice yesterday that our boxwood hedge was looking miserable then today, he took a closer look at the three boxwood bushes in the front garden and discovered a cute little caterpillar. It turns out that the Box Tree Moth, a native to easter Asia, arrived in France with a bang in 2007 from Germany and …
Broom in Sologne – Genêt en Sologne
After a lot of rain and cold recently, today the weather was warm and sunny as you can see from the blue sky. We cycled in Sologne which is full of blooming broom at the moment. Après la pluie et le froid qu’on a eu récemment aujourd’hui il faisait beau et chaud comme vous pouvez voir …
Itsy wincy spider – L'araignée gypsy
We found this ittle colony of baby spiders on the back door handle of our car this morning! I was sorry I didn’t have a more appropriate camera. Nous avons trouvé cette petite colonie d’araignées bébé sur la poignée de la porte arrière de la voiture ce matin ! J’ai regrette de ne pas avoir un …
Unidentified Underwater Object – Objet immergé non-identifié
Liliane Allouin took this photo recently when the Cosson was flooded. I can’t imagine what the roof belongs to! I’m waiting for her answer …Any idea? Liliane Allouin a pris cette photo récemment lors de la crue du Cosson. Je ne sais pas du tout à quoi correspond ce toit. J’attends sa réponse …Des idées …
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