Welcome to Petit Minou en Bretagne



I moved to this lovely part of Brittany at the end of the summer in 2008 with my husband and my two daughters

We have two holiday gites and hope to have lots of visitors in the years to come

Life here is slower than it used to be in England but my days are so much busier - looking after our two Ouessant sheep, our chickens, geese, ducks and seven cats; trying out new recipes using our freshly grown veggies, trying to keep up with the weeding and the the garden and keeping the gites in tip top condition ready for our visitors

If I have any spare time I make handmade greetings cards and gifts and have just opened an Etsy shop - visit it here

I also enjoy taking photographs and have recently joined Flickr so hopefully I will post some of my shots on here too

This is intended to be my blog about our new life here in Brittany - I really must try to make time for regular updates but seem to be failing miserably


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Tuesday 21 July 2009

Bob!!



Bob is our pure bred Marans cockerel. The Marans is a French breed

He's called Bob because he justs bobs around the garden with his girls and because he is so magnificent he just didn't need a big name

He is the business - such a gentleman - he keeps watch over his girls every day and never bullies them

When he crows you can feel the ground vibrate with the richness of his call

He has 8 girls in his harem: Henrietta who travelled over from the UK with us and is 'Mother Hen' - she reminds me of Nanny in Count Duckula, four ex-battery hens who absolutely adore him - they help him preen - and three 'pondeuse' from the local market

He loves to eat his wheat or cracked corn from my hand, it saves his amazing wattles dragging on the ground


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