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A Burgundy diary – 8 May 2024 (from Provence)
A week below Mont Ventoux A week in Provence, of walking and wildflowers. I had thought to do a note on late April, early May wildflowers in Burgundy. Instead, a week here in Provence, more...
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A Burgundy diary – 14 May 2024
Wild flowers in Creusefond; and one or more herbe-à-roberts It is unremarkable to say that the flowers in bloom in Provence are very different to those here, back in Burgundy; but it is striking that...
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A Burgundy diary (Paris) – 7 June 2024
A pen, just a fountain pen: no ink in a Paris bistrot I spent lunch-time today in a Paris bistrot, Cave la Bourgogne. I have known it for nearly 33 years. It is at the lower end of the Rue Mouffetard;...
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A Burgundy diary – 10 June 2024
Mairies in rural France Last evening most of us were struck by a remarkable piece of news: the French President M Macron had chosen – yes, chosen – to dissolve the French Assembly (equivalent to the...
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A Burgundy diary – 18 June 2024
Terracotta tiles and a pile of stones Tucked away in the forest above us is an anonymous scattering of a few stones. It includes the terracotta remnants of tiles which – if they are tiles – are...
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A Burgundy diary – 26 June 2024
It is not a ‘prune’… I took my Burgundy friend, Rémi Guillaumeau, to the site of my terracotta and pile of stones yesterday (his foot in the photo below helps a little to scale it). He assured me...
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A Burgundy diary – 30 June 2024
A colony of Burgundy snails On a small patch of rough grass – barely 12 square metres – I found a substantial colony of snails, revelling in the damp grass, I suspect. Occasionally we see a snail like...
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A Burgundy diary – 2 July 2024
And, after mid-summer’s day… The last day of June arrived a couple of days ago; and I realised – I’d given it no thought before – that already Mid-summer’s Day had passed. 2024 was now moving to its...
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A Burgundy diary – 6 July 2024
UK has elected; and tomorrow are the French elections, round two Since yesterday around lunchtime the United Kingdom had a new prime minister, Kier Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party; and this...
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A Burgundy diary – 14 July 2024
The valley of the Serein Lucie was in Tonnerre working for a week last week. I joined her for the end of the week. Tonnerre is in the in the northern part of Burgundy. Travelling there remined me what...
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