Bottling Wine by Jonathan Hesford People don’t realise the amount of thought and work that goes on behind putting wine into a bottle. Here’s an overview of the process at Domaine Treloar, but it applies…
The Way Forward into life! Meet Polly and Steve Cannie, the recent proud owners of a home in Céret. Follow their joys, trials and tribulations as they take you through their own story of…
Tuesday 1st May} I have tried SO hard to be sophisticated and subtle! Moving to France, to a region of wild and unbridled beauty, of culture and tradition, has done nothing whatsoever to ‘culturize’ me…
Friday 2nd March I heralded March in yesterday by nearly choking to death on a fly! Yes, I know it sounds a bit far fetched but if you don’t believe me, ask Olivier, Bisou or…
Thursday 9th November Amazing! This weather is something I will never get used to! Only 46 shopping days left to Christmas, and I have spent the day outside in the garden in shorts and t…
Jonathan tells of the next stages after the grape picking…. The harvest went very well, considering we had only completed the refrigeration system the day before and didn’t have any electricity on the first morning!…
Monday 2nd October It’s October! Whatever happened to September? The weather has been quite un-extraordinary this month – showers and storms mixed in with sun, hot days and warm evenings. The vines have mostly been…
Tuesday 5th September I’m running out of superlatives to describe the weather so I’ll just leave it to your imagination. Suffice to say that it is unquestionably Mediterranean. The builders started back with a vengeance…
We were particularly excited about this visit – firstly because we were going to see what the builder had done with the ground floor – he had been working on it while we were in…
If you go down to the woods today… APRIL 2006 Four communes in the Pyrenees are to receive ‘delivery’ of five Slovenian brown bears, four females and a male, who will be…