as my mum would say.
Yes we’re back from a lovely 2 weeks in Carcassonne. I’ll be catching up with emails and work stuff as a priority, but will post all about our trip and upload some pics as soon as I can this week. Thanks for the comments while we were away, keep them coming!
Well my friends, its time for un petit vacances, so I will not have time to post anything for a little while. You can keep tabs on our jaunt to Carcassonne by following me on Twitter [richard_barley on Twitter.com].
In the meantime, have fun without me and, needless to say, I shall fill you in on the trip when I return.
À bientôt!
Well, today has been the busiest day ever on La Vie en Foussais, which is fantastic! I’d like to say a big “Bienvenue” to all my readers old and new 
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There has been much a bit of excitement at our house over the last couple of months due to the arrival of a Hoopoe. The hoopoe is a rather odd-looking bird, one that we had never seen before as they rarely venture up to england. They do migrate up to europe at nesting time though, so we were rather delighted when we first spotted him pecking around outside out house, looking for worms.
We have only ever spotted him a couple of times, although we have heard him more often thanks to his “woop-woop-woop” call. When I first heard it I thought it was an alarm clock going off somewhere in the house! After hunting high and low, I discovered him sitting on next-door’s roof. Sadly, by the time I got the video ready, he had flown off
Well, this morning he returned and, thanks to our shiny new camcorder, I managed to capture him in close-up. I apologies now as this was first thing in the morning so the camera-work is a bit shaky, and everyone was eating breakfast with the TV on, so it’s a bit noisy. But I’m glad we managed to get some close-ups of this guy as he really is quite a special bird.
