Bonjour,
I hope that you just and yours are properly.
Regardless of having a house in France for greater than 20 years, I’m nonetheless discovering my now adopted nation, which the French affectionately name l’Hexagon – as a result of it’s form of hexagon formed. I’m nonetheless in love with it, nonetheless stunned by it and nonetheless amazed that you can match France into Texas and have some room left over – and but it’s like a number of completely different international locations in a single. You possibly can hop on a practice in Paris and some hours later end up in what looks like a special nation! And that’s what I’ll be doing subsequent week as I’ll go away the north and head off to Le Var division in Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’Azur. The area is well-known for glitzy and glamorous Saint-Tropez, however I’m going to be searching for out secret villages, discovering the genuine aspect of the sunny south – include me by way of Instagram the place I’ll publish movies and pictures as I’m going…
In the meantime at dwelling I’ve been sowing vegetable seeds within the backyard, and I’ve had somewhat helper! I used to be popping some peas and beans into the veg beds one morning after I noticed a slight motion out of the nook of my eye, seemed up – and got here nose to nose with a fluffy child blackbird. It was very calm, simply sat there me, then hopped a couple of bit, and it was clear it wasn’t but capable of fly. Up in a tree on the backside of our backyard an grownup blackbird was calling. However the child blackbird simply couldn’t appear to get off the bottom. I learn on the web that it’s finest to go away them – however, we now have cats, and so do our neighbours. So, I spent the whole day on the backside of the backyard ensuring that Tony Blackbird (as I name it, although it could be Toni as I’m undecided if it’s a boy or a lady but) was protected.
One other blackbird got here down and fed it, after which later began foraging for meals within the grass, and the child adopted it, copying the actions. Each time the grownup flew off, Tony tried to observe, only a few ft off the bottom at a time at first, however ultimately it managed to rise up onto a department out of attain of the cats. Each morning since then, after I’ve been right down to the hen pen to feed the gang, Tony Blackbird is there on the backside of the backyard, hopping about within the veg beds, his flying abilities getting higher every day. However I don’t suppose I’ll be getting any peas and beans this yr!
Wishing you a really bon weekend as I pack my circumstances to go south…
Bisous
Janine
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