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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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  • Diary (11)
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  • The Kitchen (4)
  • The Life (10)

Category: The Garden

  • October 29, 2023December 6, 2023
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No more updates here

  • Diary

The La Bu blog is finished. Thanks so much for reading.

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  • June 17, 2023June 17, 2023
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Summer has come

  • The Garden

After an extraordinary (and I mean that rhetorically as well as factually) damp and cool late winter, we skipped spring and now find ourselves in the summertime. It’s warm (and occasionally hot), rain makes ceremonial appearances and then retires, and corn is growing like bamboo. […]

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  • November 23, 2022November 23, 2022
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What now? Or, some questions on the future along with a few pictures.

  • The Garden

At some point, you signed-up to this email newsletter or logged onto the website in the hopes of hearing and seeing more about the little house in southern Normandy known as La Bucherie. Sorry for the disappointment. I’ve grown disillusioned of late with writing generally, […]

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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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  • 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 3, 2020July 25, 2021
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Stones, stairs, and sorties

  • Diary

The sunlight, captured, and reflected back into the north-facing room where I sit, hints at what’s to come over the next few days—temperatures in the mid-teens to somewhere around 20. Blue skies as well, or so the sky oracles promise, which is sort of too […]

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  • February 2, 2020February 2, 2020
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The Mania

  • The Garden

I am a regular enough reader of what one might call The Literature—as well as a wizened veteran—to know that gardeners suffer from a seasonal disorder that clouds their minds, and their judgement, as the days grow a little longer after the winter solstice. I […]

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  • February 3, 2019February 3, 2020
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Dwelling amidst beautiful chaos…eventually.

  • The Garden

To dwell is to garden, so said Martin Heiddeger. One of the rather dubious charms of La Bu is the state of its garden. There were visions early on, as we began to look for somewhere in France we could make home, of finding a […]

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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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