Je suis comme toujours trop débordée pour m'occuper de mon blog. Pourtant j'aurais bien aimé faire un petit album de photos de vacances (un mariage en Picardie, puis 10 jours en Angleterre). Les photos sont toujours sur le portable de Ian et n'ont pas...

It took some time, but we finally did get visitors from Finland. A nice big house in the south of France just wasn't the right incentive. I know people would have come to our wedding, but since we could not yet afford it, the big party is still to come,...

In the hectic time surrounding our wedding, I forgot to keep you updated on the fate of our small redstarts (yeah, they're actually black redstarts, and not redtails, sorry for the mistake in the previous entry). The first days they seemed so frail, I...

Last year a couple of black redstarts chose a hole in our courtyard wall as a home. We spent the whole spring watching half a dozen beaks appear in the nest. That's all we could see without disturbing the little birds. Those huge beaks streching up to...