David Burrows
@dbfamilylaw
Lover of the Burgundy fields and forests and its Romanesque architecture. Jurist and law writer(mostly children and family law). European. Once of Bristol, now living in France.
I'm with Pevsner on that. A dissolved monastry, yet what remains is finely preserved
Outside our backdoor. A protected species. Ask for escargots in France, and your escargots are not French...
Tournus (Saone-et-Loire): surely one of the finest simplest Romanesque buildings
Two semi wild cats in our roof a couple of years ago - Ginger and Fred. Both now have homes; but their sister and mother are still wild. We feed both but they are very nervous of us...
A crab apple tree in the distance in full blossom. The French seem to have no word for crab apple: just pomme sauvage
Bee loud blossom, wisteria nearly in flower, rich green everywhere, and temperature up to 25 deg C and no rain for weeks. Frost now and much of our fruit will go @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
A Burgundy view: pear trees and cherry in the fore-ground and a crab apple tree beyond
View from a Burgundy farm kitchen, Good Friday (not recognised in France) 2026
If you can read this boundary post in the middle of a Burgundy forest you can see a Corsican insignia. Corsicans were treated locally as Moors. The owner of Sully chateau in the C 17th was the Morey family. The 'Moor' coat of arms was a pun on their name
A mule bridge and pub at Linton in the Yorkshire Dales, late October 2025
@petroc.bsky.social we have a new cat. My Bretone wife likes the name Petroc. I listen a lot to @radio3.es. The 3 month old cat is called Petroc
Wild cat by our back door looking down at biscuits I'd put out for her