Bonjour!
I hope that you just and yours are nicely.
Nicely I can add cowgirl to my cv after final week’s stroll with Ronnie and Reggie the Labrador pups. We (me and my different half Mark) have been strolling alongside the chemin de Saint Michel, a slender winding path that runs by means of the fields and forests of the 7 Valleys in Pas de Calais.
It was a type of beautiful early sunny mornings when the sky appears to be like prefer it’s getting married and sporting a lacy veil, the solar was solar rising excessive of the hill of Previous Gaylord, a farmer of indeterminate age who retains cows. It was as common tranquil, no signal of the owls that typically comply with us, a number of croaking pheasants complained about us intruding, a few deer stood on the sting of the forest unsure whether or not to run this manner or that, and a hare sat inventory nonetheless watching to ensure the canines weren’t coming his approach. The hedges are in full bloom, wild roses, wild clematis, delicate pink hawthorn blossoms, wild sage and poppies swaying in a light-weight breeze. On we walked for a mile or so.
‘How fortunate I’m’ I used to be considering to myself ‘to have this on my doorstep, ‘how peaceable, no noise’ when abruptly the canines bolted off barking furiously. We rounded a bend within the highway and there in entrance of us have been ten cows. They’d escaped from Previous Man Gaylord’s subject and have been having a good time wandering about and munching on the wildflowers within the hedgerows. Fortunately you possibly can depend on one hand what number of vehicles go by in an hour in these components.
We calmed Ronnie and Reggie who have been immensely pleased with their ‘discovery.’
‘You’re not leaving me right here with this lot when you go and get Gaylord’ I mentioned to Mark. He did that after earlier than after we discovered Guillaume’s mad goat wandering about, it didn’t take any discover of me attempting to spherical it up whereas Mark fetched Guillaume, and I used to be fairly positive 10 cows wouldn’t both. ‘We’ll simply must get them again in ourselves’.
The gorgeous big-eyed black and white cows have been completely fascinated by the canines, so I walked in entrance with Reggie and Ronnie, they usually adopted. Mark walked behind in case a automobile got here. We trotted alongside in a sedate convoy, although Reggie and Ronnie have been confused about being adopted. Again previous the fields of potatoes and maize, again previous the Alley of the Angels (my neighbour Jean-Claude says it’s known as that as a result of tons of of years in the past an area lady was mentioned to have seen an angel there), all the way in which again to Previous Man Gaylord’s subject. I felt just like the Pied Piper of cows.
The gate to the sector was open so I led the canines in and the cows adopted, fixated on the objects of their need. Then I needed to run again to the gate with the canines and get out fast earlier than they adopted and got here house with us. I do know that my neighbours suppose I’m mad already with all my canines, cats, chickens, geese, geese, a dove and a hedgehog, however babysitting this lot – Holy Cow, that will actually seal the deal!
Wishing you a beautiful weekend from a cowgirl in France, and please take pleasure in a learn of the completely FREE Summer time concern of The Good Life France Journal: journal.thegoodlifefrance.com
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Bisous from my little nook of France,
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Writer of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A Yr of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Residing the Dream in Rural France all accessible as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line.
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