These last few weeks have been very busy with many pilots completing their first solo flights and others now ready to take their skills test.
I have been delighted to spend a week flying with Gerard Thomas, a 400-hour French PPL who lives in Paris.
Gerard decided to spend his summer holiday in Limoges so that he could fly with me in order to improve his English radiotelephony skills.
We have ventured to several airfields, sharing the radio calls, with me speaking French and Gerard speaking English. It was a lot of fun.
The weather in August has ranged from a scorching 32 degrees to a shivering 14 degrees—my holiday guests have enjoyed sunbathing by the pool in the daytime while sometimes suffering storms and torrential rain in the evenings.
Luckily, the horse riding is not too weather-dependent so our horses and ponies have been in constant use all summer.
This year, we have again been honoured with a nest of barn owls which is surprising because my house (a converted barn) is only two years old and I was delighted that the owls also wanted to make it their new home.
This year we have added a menagerie of animals to create our ‘Pet’s Corner’ which includes 3 Vietnamese pot-belly pigs and 4 very fat sheep together with an assortment of rabbits, ducks, pheasants, quail and chickens.
The chickens should provide our guests with fresh eggs every day when they reach maturity next year.
This new venture provides a home for ‘'rescued'’ animals as well as providing immense pleasure to the children (and adults) who holiday here.
Amazingly, some of the children have never had the opportunity to spend time with animals.
The animals are very well looked-after—only the other day, one of the pigs cut it’s trotter and was immediately treated by the vet with a dose of ‘oinkment’.
Several of our Vizsla puppies, born earlier in the year, have visited us for a short stay while their new owners are ‘en vacances’.
Blanchette, their mother, has been delighted to see them and she has enjoyed a new lease of life playing with them all day long.
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