Yearly Archives: 2011

Interrupted Transmission

Dearly Beloveds Apologies for our interrupted transmission but we have had the death of our hard drive to contend with. Hopefully we will be able to retrieve files and photos when we get back to Australia and will be able … Continue reading

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Bike riding around the Lot

Within the first few days Sharon and I were off on a bike ride along the Lot River. Absolutely gorgeous scenery and so quiet. We even happened upon a field of sunflowers which I’d been dying to see. (As the … Continue reading

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Summer evening fête at Prayssac

Interspersed with leisurely days of swanning around and in the pool, we also went to market days at Prayssac (no, not Prozac), a small town ten minutes’ drive away. The markets there were bigger than the one at our nearby … Continue reading

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Shearing and swanning…

A couple of days after we arrived it happened to be Victor’s shearing day. Each llama has a turn on alternative years. Diny was the llama ‘hairdresser’ of the family so set about giving him his haircut with Louis nervously … Continue reading

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La Bouyssette offered the Lot

Our next point of call was our little farmlette La Bouyssette just outside the town of Puy L’Eveque – which, it turned out, many French people hadn’t heard of let alone Australians. The town is 30 kms or half an … Continue reading

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