All out now!

The last brood of swallows have just left the nest this afternoon in the main barn, the above 2 haven't got very far yet, about 6 feet away from the nest but at least they are now free.
It's been the busiest year we've had with swallow nests, 2 in the boiler room with a total of 11 young and 4 nests in the main barn with at least 16 fledged, should have been more but unfortunately all of the young in one of the nests died mid way through the rearing.
Only a few weeks remain now for all the young to get up to speed before the mass exodus to Africa starts!

Deer spotting!

Just as I was on the phone to my mum in England earlier today I spotted these 3 Roe Deer in the field opposite Les Granges, get the camera quick I thought and as usual couldn't find it so I did think they would have moved on by the time I'd found it!
Quite unusual to see them considering it was late morning with quite a few visitors now in the area using the footpaths along the river side, after very quickly informing our guests  it turns out that one family had already seen them on their morning walk to and from the boulangerie, so they must have been in the area for some time!

Terrasson, a link! .

We had a trip out last week with daughter and son in law Charlotte & Dave to Les Jardins de l'Imaginaire, a place we'd heard about from our customers but as usual somewhere we'd never made time to visit, a large area with different areas of various themes of plants plus some very spectacular views, especially over the old town.
The above view had some information in the walk guide which caught my eye as there was a link between the Terrasson Abbey and Le Manoir des Granges. The Abbey, which sits magnificently on the cliff edge over looking the Vezere valley was restored "like new" by an architect monk who also restored the famous Abbey of Mont St Michel and here's the link, it was restored in 1889, exactly the same year that Le Manoir was built, I'm pretty sure there was no monk working on our property when it was built!