How to replace sluice gates
How to replace the sluice gates in a water mill This is a departure from my normal ramblings about wilding, coppicing and patching up Le...
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- Jul 21, 2023
- 2 min
Storms and Peaches
After a long night of trundling, cascading thunder and whip-crack lightening setting fire to the sky, the rain is finally here. We’ve had...
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tomharvey
- Apr 14, 2023
- 1 min
Rouge Basque or Ox-blood Red?
After ten years staring at the fading garage doors, I finally painted them both, and what a difference! The whole outbuilding has been...
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tomharvey
- Apr 5, 2023
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Willow Hedging
The theme this year has definitely been 'willow'. In a storm ten years ago we lost all the huge poplar trees alongside the leet. The...
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tomharvey
- Aug 30, 2022
- 2 min
A full house again
We have left the mayhem and political madness of London behind and are once again out at the beautiful Moulin. And it is hot! As it...
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- Apr 21, 2022
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Spring - And finally out of lockdown again...
April 2022 This is our first trip out to Le Moulin without covid restrictions. It’s a perfect time of year to visit, the weather and...
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tomharvey
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Out of lockdown at last
As the rules around isolation lift in the UK and France, we have finally made it out to Le Moulin, for the first time in a year! Sitting...
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tomharvey
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
Expanding the field kitchen
Work continues this summer on expanding the field kitchen. For many years we've been happy pulling up a log seat and eating of our laps....
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tomharvey
- Feb 24, 2019
- 1 min
Early sun in February
Just returned from the Moulin after half term week. It's a good time of year to catch up with the garden jobs. Tom laid hedges on the...
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tomharvey
- Apr 16, 2018
- 1 min
Rivers
It's March. This is the time of year when the rivers and leat are full. You can almost feel the land swelling to contain all the water....
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tomharvey
- Apr 10, 2018
- 1 min
Downward dogs
First swim of the year! Over Easter there was more than enough water in the Leat for swimming - in fact there was more water rushing...
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tomharvey
- Jan 14, 2018
- 2 min
Finding a wild boar and building a fence
Our outside eating area is evolving. We now have a fire to cook on, a pan and pot to cook with and a table with some chairs. Eating...
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tomharvey
- Jan 14, 2018
- 1 min
And so we begin
My parents, Allan and Judy, bought the Moulin de Tingaud in 2007 as a place for our family to meet and have holidays together. At the...
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