Our first morning on the farm began à bonne heure (early), 7:00 AM. We were soon dressed in our farming clothes, not knowing whether or not they would be appropriate, and making our way to the barn where the sheep…
Category: Lambing, 2009
Lambing chez Luc & Nadine at Fanjeaux, France.
Orléans to Fanjeaux
Thankfuly, today promised to be far easier that yesterday. All but the final handful of kilometres were on autoroute, much of which were toll roads so the traffic should be lighter. And so it proved; we calmly covered the 600kms/400mls…
Ewe Day
Having retired early, to bed, I mean, with great expectation, we were rudely awoken at 2:15 AM by high winds and lashing rain. Eventually we managed to return to sleep only to be awoken, as planned, by the alarm at…
Lambing Eve
Or, at least, it’s the eve of our two-day journey down to all the lambing action in Fanjeaux, France. Being the eve of our departure, the day has been largely taken up by fretting about what clothes to take, packing…
In Sheep’s Clothing
Seven days to go until we clamber on our ferry to head off for our lambing assignment. Our ferry should be due to dock in Calais at about 11:30 AM (Wednesday, 25th November) so we ought to have a comfortable…
Lambing Travel Plans
Having bravely accepted an offer to go and help out during lambing time at a dairy sheep farm at Fanjeaux in France, we needed to figure out how best to get there and back. One options was to fly from…
“On the Lam” to France (again)
One of the highlights of our ambition-realizing first-year-of-retirement 6-week trip to France in spring/early summer, 2006, was our discovery of what we consider to be the finest campsite we know. We found ourselves on a small (25 pitches) camping à…
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