Time for more animals. Sheep next.

We started with three sheep, last May. Of these we still have Dolly and Baa Baa. Ali (son of Baa Baa) made a delicious Christmas dinner....
We then aquired two more ewes, Joey and her lamb, Rosie.
Joey had a lovely black ram lamb in March, but unfortunately she and the lamb were killed by a local dog. The pictures below are of the three remaining ewes and their lambs.

This picture is of Rosie with Pipin, who was born under an apple tree. You will see how much he has grown in a later picture.

This is Baa Baa, our wild-woman Ouessant ewe, with little Dot.

Finally, Dolly with Cyril and Pipin in the background.

We are getting two more lambs, one black ewe-lamb who will be called tina, and a black ram-lamb as yet un named. At the rate the grass is growing we will need them all to keep the field down this summer.

Next post - the chickens. Can you bear to wait?

I have been meaning to get around to doing a blog for a while...

Ok, here we go.


I live, with my husband, Peter, in the centre of Brittany. Pempoulrot is just about in the back of beyond. We moved here almost exactly three years ago. We are still renovating the house and developing the garden. We are also renovating the stone barn next to the house to give us accomodation for residential courses (staring later in 2007 we hope).

We run a bookshop - le Chat qui lit, although most of our sales are now of French books on the internet.

We have numerous animals. Four cats who come live in the house (there are others who don't come in). Pixel is the oldest, and came with us from England. He enjoys the sunshine in the summer and the woodburning stove in the winter.

Milly is the other cat we brought over from the UK. She just revels in the space and wildlife (mainly for hunting).

She likes to pose for the camera.

Hugh (Fearnly-Whittingstall) and Monty (Don - the garden cats) were just kittens when we moved here. Their mother (called Ma) is black and we have never been able to get near enough to her to touch her.

Hugh quickly realised that life as a house cat was infinately preferable to that of garden cat. Monty has only just got the hang of the catflap and stays outside most of the time. This picture is of Hugh.

The latest addition to the cat menagerie is Rupert. Another one of Ma's kittens, she presented him to us (more along the lines of 'please, take this off my paws, I've had enough') when he was about 10 weeks old.

He is another blue-eyed beauty. He likes playing with the grass in the front garden.

Watch this space for the sheep and lambs next!