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Saturday, May 31, 2014

A drone flew over Gamone

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Using drone images obtained by Hakim , I attempted to learn enough about the Final Cut software to put together the following short video:...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Political catastrophe

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The great ship France seems to have collided with something big and nasty. On the radar screen, it looks like this: Outside, ever...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Is ancient France disappearing?

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Readers who know French will have understood that my title is an awkward attempt to translate our fear that « la France d’autrefois fout le...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Another baby donkey at Gamone

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For a long time, Moshé (who’s over 20 years old) was the only donkey at Gamone. Today, on the contrary, he has no less than seven donkey c...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Swarm of bees at Gamone

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This afternoon, for the first time since my childhood in Australia, I had a closeup view of a swarm of bees. My neighbor Jackie had c...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Big dog in my lap

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Fitzroy is a determined dog who has developed several “bad habits”, which I've never succeeded in controlling. I put the expression “b...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

God's green bubble gum

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This fascinating photo shows a throng of pious women (?) in God-only-knows what land. The rounded forms and pleasantly harmonious h...
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Rainbow at Gamone

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Throughout the day, there was a lot of rain at Gamone. At the end of the afternoon, a double rainbow was visible from my bathroom window. ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Beautiful beehives

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Beehives have to be painted, because they’re left outside all year round, in all kinds of weather. Most often, beekeepers use an aluminium-b...

We like to run into smart cousins

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A few days ago, I presented a video about a smart monkey [ display ]. And here I’m at it again. This marvelous photo [from Gallica, here ],...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Next week: an earth-shaking TV moment

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In less than a week, Australia has been invited to perform actively and directly in the Eurovision Song Contest … though not strictly as a c...

Bullshit Aussie news website

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One of the most trashy “news websites” I’ve ever seen is Australian… but I don’t make a point of examining all possible contenders for this ...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

If you tease a monkey…

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… you might get slapped in the face. I love the determined behavior of this smart little beast. I can almost hear him saying: “Don’t...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

How to improve your sight without glasses

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This is a fabulous solution. You don’t have to make an appointment with an ophthalmologist or an optician. In fact, it costs you nothing. ...

Raising queen bees

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Fabien and Melody are experienced beekeepers, who have recently installed a row of hives at Gamone, in a small sloping field just opposit...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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