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Gary Davies (not a DJ or a Rev)
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Living life as an immigrant in Deux-Sevres ( bordering 86 & 16) France with my wife and our dog...
I'm into music, motorcycles, wine, and Brets crisps...
Just started watching Bayonne vs Paris in a Top14 rugby and it's interesting that Canal+ are billing today's game as 'boxing day rugby'...

First time hearing the French media using the phrase boxing day...
December 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Joyeux Nöel, discovered we'd had a dusting of snow overnight on our first walk, looking very nice...
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A particle rainbow on this mornings walk...
December 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A couple of photos with the low sun lighting the hedges and trees with a gorgeous light just now....
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Rétro cars voiture 🚘 Une Simca Océane et des Simca 1000 Butagaz - Tour de France 1964
December 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Some of our winter warmers have been bottled over the last couple of weeks, the unlabeled bottle is a gooseberry vodka, all are very drinkable...
One yet to be bottled is a Raspberry Vodka...
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Decision to be made later, 2 new flavours to me...
December 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Last local rugby match of the year at Villefagnon, unfortunately no home win but they made the visiting team work hard for their 10-3 win, especially in the lengthening shadows...
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.

The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A good night at the rugby last night, another hard fought win for Angoulême over Agen, helped by a drop goal and a last ditch tackle to force a knock-on on the try line...
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Stop the chase!
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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#musicsky

See What I See by G+T

My colleagues laddie and his pal have made and posted their first track (aged 13 & 14) - count me impressed.
Comments are disabled on YouTube but I'll pass on your (nice) comments - give it a listen and share...
See What I See
YouTube video by G+T - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Another afternoon at a local rugby match, unfortunately the home side didn't win, but this did manage some points...
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Kicking off this evening...
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Another couple of shots from last nights concert, showing the set up of the 3 members of BRMC before them came on stage...
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A good evening yesterday seeing Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in Nantes...
They played the whole of their 3rd album Howl and then ripped into other songs, a good 2 hours of wonderful music...
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Walking towards some low cloud being formed by the upslope of the ridge ahead of us, with sun behind us...
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Currently watching Toulouse v Racing and whenever there's a break in play the cameras are on Antoine Dupont, either in the dugout or warming up awaiting his return to competitive rugby...
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Buddy and Moxy have the prime spot in front of the fire on this rainy afternoon, they seem to be ignoring the rugby at the moment...
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This evenings sky...
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Out on a walk this morning and went past this school room ...
A lot of primary school children with teachers having a lovely time collecting branches to help making walls in the middle of this copse, I could hear them from a little way aways...
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This CuNim cloud looking a little like a smoke stack, a little later rain was falling from it a few kilometres to the east of us...
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Moxy has found a square of sunlight to lay in this morning...
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The morning sun at the end of a country road on a -4c walk...
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Across the French region of Languedoc-Roussillon alone, nearly 15,000 hectares of vines—the equivalent of four-fifths of the area of Washington, DC—are being torn out this year

Why vineyards are disappearing in France

In @economist.com this week

economist.com/europe/2025/...
Vineyards are disappearing in France
As wine-drinking slows, farmers are uprooting vines
economist.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM