🌻Margarance🌻

@margarance.bsky.social

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French resident, UK voter, EU partisan, nerd. I consider ‘woke’ to be a compliment and ‘antifascist’ as the default position for rational human beans. Wife, mother, grandmother, cook, usually covered in dog hair. #fbpe

A lot of logs for winter.
A sheet of charcoal filter marked for cutting.
A bowl of Saint Jacques with their corals (Scallops?) cooked with leeks, mushrooms and crème fraiche. Served with crusty bread.
C12 tower of the chateau-fort d’Englesqueville la Percee, with C17 addition.
A black LabX enjoying the sun.
A spineless and chicken, a random turkey joint I found in the freezer (for hot weather salads) and a load of veggies ready to roast for supper.
A bottle of red wine, a jar of olives, slices of saucisson sec on a checked tablecloth, in a shabby garden.
Washing on the line. Sorry about the grass - moles are rampant just now.
A black (and white) LabX. Don’t ask about the cross!
A man blowing a bugle in front of an old cantilevered bridge. Pegasus Bridge 6 June 2026.
Flags and a bridge at Pegasus Musée Memorial. Cloud, blue skies and showers. Sorry about the finger!
A black dog looking to score a mouthful of sandwich.
A white plate featuring cold chicken dressed with a curried mayo/crème fraiche sauce and a side of spiced sultana rice.
A glass jug of iced tea.
Freshly laundered white sheets on the washing line.
A window onto a sunny world through a lace curtain.
A lettuce like vase of pink tulips under surveillance by an orange rabbit.
A lettuce like vase of pink tulips under surveillance by an orange rabbit.
A freshly cut garden in need of further attention. Dog is happy!
Tilly (a black LabX) in her happy place with a blanket to keep the cold tiles at bay.
A table with a brightly coloured tablecloth, a lettuce coloured vase containing pink tulips, and an orange rabbit. 🐰
A bright but windy view of a seating area, husband and dog for scale. Plenty of seats and tables with a play area out of shot. Should emphasise that it was impossible to see the screen at the time.
Caramels d’Isigny The ice cream shop is open. They have a new indoor space with crepes and waffles. Oh heaven!
A view across the fields. Blossom and wildflowers.
A black LabX on white bedding. How sensible! 🙄
Grandma, grandson and dog at the kitchen table.
A black LabX being given a post worming treat. She deserves it!
New computer. On a red desk. Big screen. Tidy desk. Books and things - more things than are useful but there we are.
Tilly, the black LabX, in prime position to get a biscuit. Which she deserves. Her Mamma, Jazzy, crossed the rainbow bridge yesterday at 17 years old. We cried.
A tea mug lid inverted on a liqueur glass in order to safely contain a tea strainer. Thereby avoiding knob problems.
Primroses
Primroses
A chair, a houseplant or three, a window and a sunny garden.
A C15 gatehouse, stone, viewed from the rear.
A black LabX waiting for her supper. Patiently. Not.
A sign (pink on a blue green wall) that says Trum is a ra_ist. A woman stands before if with a P in her left hand, a C in her right. She isn’t wrong.
Toast, paté, onion marmalade.
A snowy scene across a field. Trees at the far side, a snow topped stone wall in the foreground.
Tilly. A Black LabX with a grubby face.
A gin & tonic in a green & white glass.
A black LabX with her head on my knee and her eye on a snack.
A black lab X snuggling into the Christmas camouflage. The sweetest girl.
A skeletal tree, waiting for spring.
A new baby in a woolly hat. He has found his thumb.
À dog laying on her (in the wrong place) bed. Worried.
A mushroom brush. Upside down.
The grave of Wilfred Percy Nevill, surrounded by poppy wreaths and football.
A statue of three soldiers at the British Normandy Memorial.
Sun shining through autumn leaves and lace curtains.
À beautiful autumn tree just before the first storm of the season.
À soldier peering over a stone wall…
A large glass jar filled with a kilo of Darjeeling/Ceylon black teas. Our winter stock of tea.
A military gravestone decorated with flowers of remembrance and a football. Captain W P Nevill East Yorkshire Regt 1 July 1916
Light through a window in the chateau de Chenonceau. A self portrait.
TV on in the van #TheRestIsHistory. Wet outside.
A table, a dog, a steak. And a knee. Good girl!
A pot of tea, mugs, brioche aux pralines on a camping car table.