Le Petit Gîte des Roses

29/06/2025

🦇🦇🦇 the video just doesn't do them justice! But what an amazing thing to be sitting outside at this time of night in a t-shirt and watching so many bats flitting around, doing amazing acro-bat-ics (sorry - couldn't help myself 🤣🙈) right above us, with the crickets chirping and a light breeze rustling the surrounding trees. But don't take my word for it.... we've had a cancellation in August due to a change in circumstances, so if you fancy a week away for peace and quiet, relaxing in the beautiful French countryside, don't delay! Click on that Airbnb link & book it! At just €80 a night for a beautiful, fully equipped, self catering French holiday cottage that sleeps 6, and direct flights from the UK to Nantes ✈️ (or just 1.5 hours drive from the ferry at St Malo) you really don't have a good enough excuse not to book!

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19/06/2025

Villepôt Market TONIGHT 😋 come along!

18/06/2025

Hello ✨️ sorry for the radio silence 🔕 We've taken a short break from the gîte to go off to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for a week. After the loooooong car journey (almost 3,000km round trip in total!) And this time last night we were still battling our way around the M25 with roadworks & accidents & lane closures.... arriving in France on the ferry ⛴️ at Dieppe at 4am 😴🥱 this morning, it's so easy to see why our little Le Petit Gîte des Roses is such a haven to travellers making their way north or south throughout France 🇫🇷

Peace & quiet (bar the occasional "lost" lamb in the distance) It's still 30°C outside but extremely pleasant in the shade 😎 I just have one complaint.... watch until the end of the video and see if you can spot my major complaint 🧐🍸😅

There's still a few nights left in the summer if you are holiday planning. Don't hang around, they won't!

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Edinburgh Gin

08/06/2025

If you're visiting Le Petit Gîte des Roses you might notice that our fruit trees 🌳🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒 are looking a little sheepish.... 🫣🐑 No, they're not feeling the cold! We've just finished shearing our 57 sheep for part of the farming side of the business, Agneau de Villepôt and rather than waste the wool, we mulch the base of our young fruit trees with the fleeces. This amazing natural resource is choc full of nitrogen, acts as a natural w**d suppressant and holds an incredible amount of moisture, keeping our lucky trees w**d free & well hydrated all summer long! The wool naturally decomposes and improves the soil, as well as providing luxury bedding 🛌 for all the little shrews and voles, in turn keeping the fabulous population of owls 🦉 and other birds of prey well stocked up!

So, although it might look a little different 🤔 a tree wearing a cardigan 😂 it's actually a fantastic use for this incredible natural resource.

Happy sheep 🐑 Happy trees 🌳 happy fruit 🍎 Happy wildlife 🐭 Happy Happy us 🥰

06/06/2025

We had a ery unexpected visitor in the gîte garden when we got home from Châteaubriant earlier today! A teeny tiny hedgehog 🦔 who was being eyed 👀 up by Rohan 😼

We scooped him up and moved him to safety with some food & water. We can't be sure... but there's a striking family resemblance to Jojo! This could be a Jojo baby hog!! It was definitely very cute 😍 and seemed to be quite lively and actively searching for food. The forecast rain 🌧 this weekend should help the hogs no end 🦔🦔🦔

05/06/2025

First of this year's hydrangeas 💐 for yesterday's guests 😍

04/06/2025

QUAND LE CONSEIL DÉPARTEMENTAL PARLE DE VILLEPOT…

Chères Villepotaises
Chers Villepotais

Dans son dernier Bulletin « Le Département près de chez vous », que vous trouverez dans vos boîtes à lettres, vous pourrez voir que l’on y parle de Villepot.
Je m’en réjouis pour vous toutes et tous, pour notre commune qui évolue, s’améliore et embellit, malgré un environnement budgétaire très difficile.
C’est l’occasion pour moi de remercier une nouvelle fois tous nos partenaires qui permettent la réalisation de nos projets, et plus particulièrement aujourd’hui Michel MÉNARD et l’ensemble des élus du Conseil Départemental, pour leur soutien attentif à notre monde rural.
Vive notre beau territoire
Vive celles et ceux qui le font vivre
Vive notre belle commune de Villepot
Le Maire
Philippe DUGRAVOT

04/06/2025

We had a VIP visitor the other day 🦔 little Jo-Jo stopped by to say hello!

In fact, Scott found her outside during the day, hanging around by the bird feeders so we brought her inside to make sure she was OK. She had a wee nibble of some cat food (non fishy 🐟 of course) and a massive drink of water, then snuggled down for a nap like she'd never left! While we were outside, she obviously woke up, escaped from her box, had a rave in the pantry 🙈🤣🦔 and was all nestled and cute back in her box when we came back in, leaving only a trail of utter chaos in the pantry as evidence she'd even been awake!

We waited until dusk then took her back outside to be a free and wild hog again. As it's been so dry, I think she was looking for water 💧 and not having had much luck, waited for Scott to find her by the feeders! What a clever little hog she is. So, we've now got a temporary hog watering station set up, which has been going down considerably overnight so someone is using it. I've also been on my favourite app Pinterest finding awesome hedgehog oasis plans 😀 🦔🌴🍸 Scott has dutifully added them to his to-do list 😍😁

02/06/2025

30/05/2025

This is a fun game 🎯 very specific to our area of France.

11/05/2025

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06/05/2025