Lucky escape!

Rescued from the house pool skimmer this morning, this rather large toad who was looking all a bit dazed and confused following what could have been a few hours in the skimmer whilst the pool pump had been running, unfortunately quite a few animals don't survive this ordeal but thankfully he or she did, now free to go and do what toads do, whatever that is at this time of year!

On the turn.

Apart from some of the leaves falling off the tree at the front of the house, this is the first real sign to a change in the season, the Virginia Creeper on the face of the barn has just started to turn that lovely red colour of autumn, hard to believe really, especially as yesterdays temperature was just above 30 degrees and this afternoon is looking to be the same. Our American and Australian guests who are with us at the moment were all in the gite pool yesterday cooling off, not bad for late September!!

Take your pick!

It's wine sale time again here in France! Just after the majority of visitors to the area have left, all the supermarkets have a sale of hundreds of different wines mainly from all over this region, it's certainly a very difficult decision with such a display, but we've picked a few special ones for christmas so will look forward to tasting those in December. At least all our guests here at the moment will be returning home with many bargains and a full car boot!

Earlier this week we managed to have a couple of nights in Toulouse, a fascinating place, we mainly went for a rest after what has been a very hectic year so we didn't do very much whilst there but it's certainly made us want to return in the future for a longer stay and get to see the many museums that are there.

New arrival!

This little fellow was spotted when we were out for a walk in the field next to Le Moustier bridge, rather sleepy she managed to pick herself up and follow her mum across the field, we weren't quite sure how old she was but as you can just see above the umbilical cord was still showing from her belly so couldn't have been very old at all.