A friend of mine has several fishing lake's, Many brits including myself love fishing! We catch the fish and throw them back! NOT THE FRENCH! We see back in the UK Carp landed and displayed in magazines, Large I must admit and fit for a UK magazine, But the carp comes from France and boy do they get...

Im looking forward to getting sheep as they have tons of wild mint growing in their field (Minted lamb)

Great idea! We have a leg of the european hovercraft speed and endurance race here in France at lake Rabodange, Approx 4km away from my land perhaps I could enlist them to plough my 7 acres, Should take less than 30 secs and no morning after back ache!

I cry at fought of whats happening to whales, Ive personally swam with blue and hump, Dare I say it a gene should be produced to make these gentle giants dangerous like great whites, The difference being is that the whales only would defend themselves unlike great whites that have a natural instinct...

Hi, I have always just cut off at ground level, The canes removed are then stuck in sand then used to form a new bed, Ive never had any problems and have not reduced in fruit production per plant

Hi Lizzie, You are welcome anytime, Everyone is welcome! If we cant put you up then we have many friend's who can. The thing about our place we live at is we are on top of a mountain, What this means is we get damn cold winters, snowed in a lot of the time which is glorious, But also in the summer i...

Here in France we eat a lot of horse meat, It tastes lovely, It's lean and dont leave you feeling bloated, But it's a big no no in the UK. Instead the UK promote's producing more and more beef! What animal on the planet produces the most methane harmful to the ozone? DOH! that would be the cow! Us e...

Sod the creosote, Just use the old engine oil, Did mine 5 years ago and still has not faded. Of a night time with the aid of a torch you can see the earwigs crawl onto the posts and die, But plant's such as wisteria and jasmin are doing fine on the same posts!

If anyone is interested, Here in rural France, If one has a problem with Rats,weasels,stoats,pine martins and ferrets stealing eggs, We fill a old coke bottle with moth balls and put small holes in it. Then place it in the coop, The chickens cant get to the moth balls but the rodents detest the scen...

I kid you not, But our girl's get all our left overs until the pigs arrive in spring. On several occassions we have made a vat of vindaloo and the left overs have gone to the girls, resulting in spicey egg's:

Likewise Ron, I was born and bred in Plaistow and have them tattooed on my chest! The Hammer's have actually got a large following here amongst the French. They show all Westhams games on French TV. See you in europe boy's

Goodmorning all! I may be teaching granny to suck egg's literally, But here goes! A reliable way of keeping your chicken's worm free is to add a couple of drop's of malt vinegar to there water every couple of week's. This tip was passed to me by ancient French local's that have kept chicken's since ...

Hi westhamron, Is that from West Ham or a hammers supporter

Thank's Herbaceous for the welcome. Rooster if it's a dream of your's then go for it! Dont live your life and think what could have been! We have found there is no risk involved in moving here as long as you dont mind a simple but healthy life. The time it become's risky is when you bring England wi...

Hi Rooster, Right here goes! Im Mark and the wifes Kim, We have 4 kids under the age of 15, 2 boys and 2 girls. Im 40 and Kim is 39. 5 Years ago we decided to leave the rat race in Dagenham Essex and bought a old cow shed on top of a mountain in Lower Normandie France. We have 7 acre's of land in to...