Le Perchoir Gite Holiday Home

21/08/2024

Summer lunches. Homegrown tomatoes and grapes. Sourdough bread from the baker who grows his own cereals as well. Love this time of year.

19/08/2024

Vines weighed down by sweet, juicy tomatoes ripening in the sun. Birds Eye chillies ripening too.
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11/08/2024

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09/08/2024

09/08/2024

Glorious summer in full swing at Le Perchoir. Still availability for late August and early September. Allez les bleus!

11/05/2024

A taste of France this fine morning.Villeréal market. Every Saturday since 1288. That’s 736 years. And definitely the best in the area.

10/05/2024

Absolutely astonishing. So fantastic to be seeing this amazing light show tonight. Nature at her very best. No filter, just my iPhone and hardly any light pollution here in southwest France.

22/04/2024

Thank you for my birthday wishes. Had a lovely day walking on the beach at the west coast. Not another soul in sight. Then out for supper at an exemplary restaurant L’Atelier, Issigeac. Superb!

15/04/2024

SOLD: Another piece fresh out of the kiln last week and off to its new home very soon.

14/04/2024

Bursting into life here in Lot et Garonne.A new blog post

This little creature could be a nightingale, although I can’t be sure as I’ve not ever seen more than a fluff of brown feathers taking hasty flight. Rarely seen, there are several of them singing their hearts out at Le Perchoir. They like the mature oaks, lime and walnut trees but definitely pre...

24/03/2024

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz.I wonder where the birdies is.They say the birdies on the wing, but that’s absurd.I always thought the wing was on the bird.anonymous, though a favourite of the great Spike Milligan.Very little need for too many words at this glorious time of year. Le Perchoir in...

09/12/2023

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ALL GO!

04/12/2023

Water, water everywhere.

DROUGHT

23/11/2023

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Writing this today, with the first frost gently disappearing as the winter sun rises over the oak woodlands, it seems hard to believe that it really won’t be that long until the days start lengthening again. Eleven years ago today, we drove down through France to our new life, me in the car and Si...

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17/10/2023

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SAME S**T, DIFFERENT DAY

29/09/2023

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THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

28/09/2023

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SMASHING IT!