Saturday, January 17, 2009

Artouste Fabrèges

I (Neil) visited Artouste Fabreges today. It's around 50 minutes from our house. A quiet, small resort with about 70% boarders to 30% skiers. The sky was bluebird, the temperature was up and the snow felt perfect. Soft on the piste, natural hits all over the mountain.

I don't know why I like pictures of ski lifts.

Tracked powder

The combination of outfit colour and mightyness of leap caused the lens cover to squint

Looking along the Ossau Valley

Pic du Midi d'Ossau

Saturday, January 10, 2009

More panelling








Only 2 rooms left to go

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Monday, January 5, 2009

Snow day_Gourette

Freshly made American pancakes, creme fraiche, maple syrup and a cup 'o' rosy lee to get me started

Sunny, but icy. New snow is needed

Monday morning traffic

Above the clouds, looking north

xmas drive trip meter

Home-Calais-London-Dorset-Cherbourg-Home

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Hen Manor & the 'fireplace'

Au revoir monsieur Fox

Here lie the remnants of a silly fake fireplace

Never to darken our doors again!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

The day today

Today we patched up more of Hen Manor, and repaired a wee chicken doorway

Selected seeds for our forthcoming veg patch

And knocked up a bird table and bracket out of scraps

Friday, January 2, 2009

From 'Fowl Den' to 'Hen Manor'

Over the coming days we're going to turn this run down wee barn into a palace for our forthcoming hens


Hardly fox proof at the moment

Or weather proof


Amongst the wreckage were petrol cans, rat poison, fruit boxes, a patterned tie, corn cobs and random bits of rubber, plastic and wood, and some old medicine for good measure

Not to mention the remnants of booze

I've got wood

Clean

Clean

Not sure what lives in here

Tune in for updates over the coming days

Thursday, January 1, 2009

New Years Day stroll in the sunshine

Mistletoe, all over the shop here. Seeing it was 6 quid a sprig in Liberty's I think it's a viable earner.

Big D

This bridge is down the lane from our place. No idea where it once led to, but it doesn't anymore.

Must've been 14 degrees today. Too nice.

Note nerdy twitcher's binoculars. Thanks mum.