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La Bucherie

A 1791 farmhouse and a blog about it.

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I'm Peter. Hi!  I'm to blame for this. Also a lot of other things. Sorry. This website is vaguely about a 1791 stone house in southern Normandy. And food. And rain. And probably some fermented things. And certainly a garden that is—shall we say—verdant.

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Category: The Life

  • October 29, 2023December 6, 2023
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The La Bu blog is finished. Thanks so much for reading.

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  • March 23, 2023March 23, 2023
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Wondrous Carnac Unknown

  • The Life

Carnac, in the south of Brittany, is home to one of the largest collections of neolithic standing stone assemblages in the world. Spread over four kilometres, these three thousand or so stones–almost all aligned east to west, from smallest to largest–were erected between 8,000 and […]

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  • June 10, 2022June 10, 2022
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Butterflies amidst the grass

  • The Garden

Back in the olden-days, LaBu was optimized for visitor quantity, with four bedrooms, all of which at some point or another functioned as parts of a hotel or gite. We found during the course of The Changes, in addition to some truly atrocious—and at times […]

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  • September 24, 2021September 24, 2021
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Fall falls

  • The House

Fall is coming to LaBu. The first sign—really—was the cherry tree leaves, which almost overnight began to turn a light shade of yellow, before gravity and a light still-warm wind scattered them across the grass below. Now, we have a few particularly precocious chestnuts that […]

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  • December 31, 2020December 31, 2020
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2020: c’est fini

  • The Garden

You know how at the beginning of every year, you sit down and make a list of everything you’re going to accomplish and when? And then, you work through that list methodically, checking off each item as you gleefully turn to the next? Yeah. Me […]

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  • October 25, 2020October 30, 2020
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Falling into the end of the year

  • The Garden

Fall has arrived, but it seems late this year—probably something we all will gradually get used to saying year after year until we simply stop noting the death of the remembered world of the Before Times. In early September the butterflies suffered a mass confusion […]

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  • April 24, 2020April 25, 2020
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Soundings

  • The Life

Most mornings I wake to birdsong. Oftentimes, I just lay with my eyes closed, awake, but just. It’s a welcome moment in a day whose silences no longer lap around human endeavor but threaten to drown it. I talk to myself a lot. Always have, […]

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  • June 14, 2019July 25, 2021
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The Second Half

  • The Life

Driving up the Cotentin coast with an old friend, one of my oldest—some quarter of a century of putting-up with one another. He remembers me when, and I him. It’s a nice—but unsettling—feeling in this time of constant reinvention and managed public personae to spend […]

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  • March 20, 2019July 25, 2021
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A place in the world

  • Diary

The little town of Domfront, a few miles from the house, has a not too unusual silhouette for France, or really for most of post-feudal Europe. There’s a steeple—although a truly unusual one—as well as ruined castle, which aside from its surrounding gardens has nothing […]

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  • January 14, 2019July 25, 2021
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The year begins

  • Diary

It’s mid-January, and I’m winding down a month spent in a new house in Normandy. It’s a new old house, one built in the late 1700s, and so it has been a fine place from which to inhabit both our contemporary manic futurism and our […]

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About La Bucherie

I'm Peter. Hi!  I'm to blame for this. Also a lot of other things. Sorry. This website is vaguely about a 1791 stone house in southern Normandy. And food. And rain. And probably some fermented things. And certainly a garden that is—shall we say—verdant.

Sometimes, the web, huh?

Would you like to subscribe to Dispatches? It's an email update/newsletter thingy that drops new posts directly into your own warm and cosy email box.

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Digging in…

  • Diary (11)
  • The Garden (9)
  • The House (9)
  • The Kitchen (4)
  • The Life (10)
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