Bonjour,
I hope that you simply and yours are properly.
Autumn is formally right here, blue skies and cooler days, nights drawing in earlier, sizzling chocolate, visiting museums, strolling by crunchy leaves, vibrant timber, wooden fires, and shutters closed within the early night. And chez moi, a busy time within the backyard harvesting greens and fruit and giving the chickens a feast from the leftovers.
I’ve been making an attempt to curb my hen obsession. It started after I first got here to France. Forsaking metropolis life, a small home within the suburbs and a job in a financial institution, my new life was a complete distinction. Me and my husband Mark deliberate to journey round France on our bike. However, an undesirable 6-month-old pet about to be euthanized, got here our approach. He was quickly adopted by one other undesirable canine, a number of stray cats, one other rescue canine. We offered the bike and cancelled the journey plans.
Then got here chickens – a present from former colleagues, adopted by geese and geese – all pets, not for the pot. This week we’ve got extra chooks – 4 feral fowl have joined the gang.
We’d seen stray chickens for weeks on our walks within the forest, conserving our 4 canines on leashes to ensure they didn’t chase after them. At first there have been 11 chicks with their mother and father. They scuppered across the undergrowth and sometimes got here into our backyard. Over time there have been much less and fewer of them. This week simply 4 have been left, the others most likely the victims of foxes, pole cats and buzzards. I knew they wouldn’t make it by winter however they’re Street Runner quick, unimaginable to catch in a discipline of stinging nettles and cow pats. So, after I noticed them munching on my greens, I hatched a plan. We tempted them into the hen pen with sweetcorn and lettuce, and have popped them in a giant cage separate from the remainder of the chickens till we all know that they’re wholesome, and in a position to maintain their very own with bossy crew leaders Kim Kardachicken and Joan Crawford!
Issues don’t at all times work out as we deliberate right here in the midst of nowhere rural France, however life is rarely uninteresting!
I’m off to Good and Antibes in just a few days time – be a part of me on Instagram the place I’ll share my journey – now, if solely I might share the meals and wine too!
Bisous from a mad hen girl in France,
Janine
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