2nd April 2025...cherry blossom and a dung beetle!

1st April 2025..... magnificent magnolias!

Start of the month photo

We had to drive through Labastide and the magnolias there are huge and super colourful.

29th March 2025....a beautiful day after all the wind and rain.

Rainbow 🌈 

27th March 2025...Garden shots

Garden will be taking on a more sedate, easy to care for attitude this year!

We've planted asparagus and hopefully soon sweet potatoes

Tomatoes if we really need them can be grown in sacs, but I feel we can buy local organically grown tomatoes etc so cheaply locally, that it's not worth the effort.

We will see..... I bet we end up with some!


Osmanthus, planted 2024...doing well, smells divine...

Mulberry trees starting to bud.

Asparagus shoots

Still looking like little worms!

It takes 3 years for a bed to establish before you can pick.

26th March 2025...big beetle

A big beetle (Violet oil beetle)

23rd March 2025...Sparrow Hawk

Found behind the house. He was flapping about and we suspected a broken wing.....aided (!) by Charlie we caught him and got him into a box to calm him down...we then tried to contact a vet or rescue centre etc....no luck, so we started to ask in the village, very fortunately Lola daughter of Alice is at Toulouse studying to be a vet.

So she came over and took him, next morning Alice came to say the wing was only bruised and he had flown off...😁😁😁🕊️🕊️🕊️

22nd March 2025...phesant, horses, the hole!

One of the biggest noise makers....

Alice and her GGs

First grape hyacinths

Dave inspects the hole which he accidentally reversed into last night in the dark, in the rain, in the CAMPING CAR!

Luckily a friend helped tow it forward and all was well!