Each day, it seems, brings some new discovery or experience to our lives here in France.... What's behind the barn [...]

Jenny Wren Yesterday, while seed sowing and potting, I was kept company by a little wren that was constantly alarm calling.  [...]

Clearing the woodland walk of ivy and removing deadwood and brambles has created a huge pile of rubbish to dispose [...]

New Arrivals Aside from the two boars we purchased from the brocante (and Silvie and Gils' new granddaughter!), we've had [...]

Soon after we arrived at La Biochere we visited a brocante near Fresnay sur Sarthe and made friends with the [...]

By mid-April, we had completed the last of the bedrooms and the upstairs toilet (barring the floor and cupboard doors), [...]

Fixing the land line After weeks and months of researching, disappointments and frustrations we are finally connected with a landline [...]

Does the name, La Biochère have a meaning, we wondered?  The grandson of a previous owner thought not and there [...]