What a varied week! Last Sunday was Trout Fishing Sunday in Vieil Baugé, organised by a fishing group and the Comité des Fêtes. There were perhaps 80 rods, and most seemed to go away happy with a catch or three. The fishing group also provided baguettes with pork belly or sausages or paté (strictly carnivore!), while the Comité des Fêtes, with whom we volunteer from time to time, ensured that no one got dehydrated through lack of access to beverages. Some may have got dehydrated from the volume of red and rosé wine consumed, or beer, but that was their own look out!
We have picked all, and eaten most, of the broad beans so today it was all change in the vegetable garden. The Aldi aubergines are doing OK, so two had their plastic cloches removed as they had grown too big. The Year 2 potato bed now has aubergines, butternut squash, cabbages, parsnips, sweetcorn, haricot beans and radishes sown or growing in it. Elsewhere we have mangetout peas, more butternuts, courgettes, garlic, shallots, onions and parsley. The last crop to go in will be next weekend, when we sow the borlotti beans, which need nice warm soil to germinate. Our learning so far this year is that sunshine doesn't always mean warm soil, and gardening on a slope is "interesting".
The trail camera is doing sterling work as a log camera, and things are taking less notice of it, and carrying on in their daily life. There are videos this week, but one thing that was captured as a photo only was a passing hare. This animal terrifies the largest of the garden cats, and a full grown hare is indeed a large animal. This is the best the camera could do.
So, on to the videos. There are four for you this week. One is an atmospheric - well, let's face it, blurred - view of a deer passing through in the morning, when the dew settles nicely on the lens. There is night time feeding by deer and by badgers, and the boar are back, this time with a darling little piglet, which moves very quickly.
My homage to the Cannes film festival!! Have a good week!
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