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		<title>Improving the landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 06:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the summer approaches I&#8217;ve been out and about snipping, pruning and shearing &#8211; always under the watchful eye of Mrs B (head gardener).
She lives in fear whenever I use the strimmer or tractor-mower, secure in the knowledge that another small bush or tree is about to be thrown to the ground and chopped into thousands of small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing out the dead wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been taking advantage of the nice weather to get out and do a spot of seasonal gardening. Well, Mrs B does the garden and I say nice things about it, which seems to keep both of us happy.
The only jobs I&#8217;m allowed to do outdoors are things that involve the chainsaw or other hazardous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slash and burn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surrounding our house and gites we have about 16 acres of land &#8211; meadow, woodland, fields etc. Very pastoral it is too.
We don&#8217;t especially want &#8216;land&#8217; &#8211; although I enjoy striding around the fields in a &#8216;landowner&#8217; kind of way - but it is useful to have it because it stops some errant maire from giving planning permission to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing the garden, French style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a lovely English style garden border, about 60 metres long and 4 metres wide. It is full to overflowing with trees, shrubs, rose and bulbs, and there is usually something in flower for nine months of the year. It takes Mrs B a lot of work to maintain it, but it runs up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She loves me, she loves me not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking from the kitchen door this morning, watching the goldfinches on the birdfeeder  as they scared off any great tits and blue tits that dared to try and nibble a sunflower seed, when one of the children pointed out the two deer standing just yards away from the door.
I&#8217;m not sure how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bergerac vineyards, figs and saffron flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs B couldn&#8217;t got on her usual Tuesday morning excursion today &#8211; she usually sets off exploring with a friend once a week &#8211; which meant I get roped on as a rather poor alternative.
As a result, we set off bright and early to explore a few tiny villages we had never visited before, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wood chopping and woodburning stoves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is some way off yet, we hope, but there are a few things to be done in advance. The main job to do before it gets cold is to make sure we have a big stock of wood to burn, since it&#8217;s the cheapest most environmentally way to heat a house, and also it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden troubles &#8211; pool liners and wisteria pruning</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/swimming-pools-and-wisteria-pruning/2007/09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May I wrote about some troubles we were having with our EuroPiscine pool liner. Not surprisingly, the problem still hasn&#8217;t been resolved and the company seem to have decided that silence is their best approach.
Happily it seems that things can proceed anyway, and our legal representatives have appointed an expert to come around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French bureaucracy and trenches in the garden</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/digging-trenches-in-the-garden/2007/09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just resolved this years little run in with the world of French bureaucracy, mostly of my own making, so we are happy.
A few months ago a nice man from the water board came by, smiling and pleasant, and stuck a piece of paper under my nose for me to sign. They wanted permission to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get out of the house</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/get-out-of-the-house/2007/03/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woo hoo spring has arrived (I think). We had a lovely sunny day today, with Mrs B singing and dancing in the flowerbeds because she could do some weeding after a couple of weeks of rain.
One job we tackled was &#8216;big pruning&#8217;. This involves Mrs B walking round the gardens pointing at dead branches, and [...]]]></description>
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