In our kitchen, one window looks on to the 'bourg'- the church, the road, the neighbouring houses of the village; while the other looks out on the garden and the surrounding 'campagne', a great wide sweep of fields, trees and the low hills of the Montagnes...
Our vegetable garden is now very full, all is flourishing and the greenhouse is full of ripening tomatoes, peppers, basil, and aubergines. All our hard work-digging, composting, sowing seeds and weeding out the 'mauvais herbes' has now come to fruition....
Its that time of year again, another marker in the seasonal round- our small town in central Brittany is transformed once more. The festival of Vieilles Charrues is one of the largest rock music festivals in Europe. Somehow this quiet town in the midst...
Runrig play a song called 'May morning' which is about feeling alive again after a long winter. Today felt like the first day of summer-which it was! On the 'Grande Randonee' skirting Carhaix-Plouguer there are short stretches of excellent footpath, the...
Here's a rhyme- The centipede was happy quite When said a toad in fun Which leg comes after which? Which worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run. Our original mind is in harmony with its surroundings and knows...
Four years of living in the country. In the summer this is paradise but in winter i think of the city. Living in the country you are closer to that natural, spontaneous life. There's all the flowers and vegetables growing in the garden. It all happens...
What is this life that we should respect? Its the life that is there all the time. The life that you are, essentially-breathing, aware of everything, conscious and present, existing in space,being, part of this whole creation, Tao. Observing it all and...
The way that so much in life happens entirely of itself, without any effort on our part. So much of life is like this. Zen writings has a word for it-'tzu-jan'. Our breath comes and goes all the time. like the waves washing on the shore, with no effort...
Try this fish recipe-its really nice and you can use any white fish. You need to serve 2 2 teaspoons of veg. oil 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 tomatoes chopped 200 ml coconut milk dessertspoon of chopped fresh ginger one smallish finely chopped green...
Here's a couple of recipes to try- Flageolet bean salad This is from the'Cranks Bible' which Eve gave me at Christmas. I am gradually getting into the more sophisticated recipes from Cranks, the wholefood vegetarian restaurant that started in the 70's...
