28th February 2026... garden flowers

Clematis amandii

Hyacinth growing through New Zealand flax.

Crocus

Amandii

Chinese quince

The only tree in our garden which broke in the wind...the strawberry tree which we wanted to move away from the back wall anyway!

Daffs 😃

Violets

24th February 2026...wall and garden

Dave seems to favourite tonight!

Dave and Bérengère discuss the next move.

Blue sky at last...

Mulberry trees will be cut next week...

22nd February 2026...mimosa and greenhouse

After several mimosa trees were brought down in the wind, it seems criminal not to collect some!

The remaining parts of the greenhouse...still no idea what we are going to do with it.

19th February 2026... crochet, wall, flower.

My winter project 

Jasmine

Wall progress 

18th February 2026..... Chaffinch, Garden Wall, Morning mist.

We are feeding the birds on the windowsill as it's so windy....
Chaffinch, blue and great tits and maybe a nuthatch.

Bérengère built a bit more wall.... Dave hired a truck and made 3 trips to the quarry (gravel & sand mix) and one trip to Point P for more blocks. He did carefully move some of the gravel off the truck. 😱

Mist in the valley is always so Tolkienesque!

16th February 2026....Lambs!

15th February 2026.....More Trees down.

Dave took a walk up the mountain from us, and soon encountered more chaos.

This is the reason we had no water for 24 hours.

Link below is an ariel view of L'espinouse, which is the closest to us, just above us.

Ariel view of l'Espinouse

14th February 2026...more disasters 😱

This is a pole carrying the fibre optic....
Dave's walk around the 2 villages...

All the cut trees are just on the first bend down, and these were the trees that effectively cut us all off!

Some from Cailho le bas.

This is one of the new poles made to look like wood, but are not.

The piece that is upright in the foreground, was on top of the top of the pole, with fibre holder still attached!