Bonjour from Brittany!

[Tomatoking]

As we have been members for a few months and really enjoy our daily 'fix' of this forum, we thought it was about time that we introduced ourselves!

Having lived in France for just over 9 years, we moved to our present property just over a year ago. We have nearly 7 acres of gorgeous land, 6 of which are taken over by our two girls (horses). We also have one springer, 4 hens and 2 cats. Early in the year we built our own polytunnel 15m x 15m and have had a fabulous crop of tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, peppers, chillies and melons as well as being inundated with other crops outside. We intend using about an acre of the land for other projects such as fruit trees etc. We have had great success with all our veg and the freezer is heaving and we are never short of manure!
Brittany can be very wet in the winter, but this year we have had a gorgeous summer most of the time. Now it is time to 'batten' down the hatches and fire up the woodburner and open another bottle of 'vin'!

[FionaH]

Hiya welcome to the Vine

[Flummery]

Hi, nice to meet you. Sounds like you have a lovely set-up there. I wish I could annex the paddock behind our house - it would become an orchard (apples, plums, greengages, quinces - the lot!) and an extra foraging area for the chickens. Sadly not to be but I can dream. You don't need to!

[scarey55]

Welcome to the Vine Tomatoking. Sounds as if you have your work cut out with all that land, I have enormous trouble keeping on top of one acre never mind 7, do you think I could borrow your horses a couple of times a month to keep my "grass" down

[Glutton4...]

Welcome to the Madhouse Tomatoking, your place sounds fab! *dstarts daydreaming about winning the Lottery*

Scarey, what you need is some Geese!

[bobleponge]

Hi Tomatoking, and welcome.

Whereabouts in Brittany are you, its a big old departement, and yes, its definitely time to batten down for winter.

[scarey55]

Scarey, what you need is some Geese!

Ooh, now there's a thought - and something for Christmas dinner too

[ginger ninger]

A big hello and welcome to the Vin "Tomatoking", I'm so jealous of your set up, it sounds gorgeous, could you put some photo's on for me to salivate over please.

[Tomatoking]

Hi, thanks for all your replies. We are in Dept 22 in central Brittany which is a lovely area and gorgeous countryside surrounding us! As to geese....erm...well one of us is a veggie so we wouldn't keep animals to eat! So having hens, we only keep them for the eggs. Will try and get some pics on here soon for you to have a look at. Right....back to our lunch and that lovely glass of vin!

[Nicos]

Hi there- and welcome to the Vine!
Ha!!..another Grape this side of the channel!

We've been here since last summer ( although we bought the longere 2 1/2 yrs ago)
Love it!

..... we too have hens and our horse has gone to live in the Lake District near to our daughter ( he'll be missed)
your place sounds lovely!

looking forward to hearing more from you!

[Tomatoking]

We would like to put all our pictures on a Blog, can anyone recommend a good site to use.

[scarey55]

There are loads to chose from, I use Blogger. I'm not much of a tekkie but I manage to post on my blog without too much trouble. Looking forward to seeing it.

[Tomatoking]

Thanks for the advice about the blog, we have now gone live, although still a bit of tweaking to do!

[binley100]

Hello and welcome tomatoking. We spend our holiday in Carnac most years, love the place
and surrounding countryside. We'll give you a wave next time we drive past.

[scarey55]

Just had a look at your blog. Well done, it looks great.

The polytunnel is brilliant - your OH should go into business building them, it looks very professional. Your garden looks fantastic, puts mine to shame and I love all your animals. I hope you don't mind but I am following your blog.
(Scarey) Clare(y)