Another unwelcome visitor

St Thècle

Yesterday's weather: Mild and mixed

Jon went out this morning for his usual wander round the garden before breakfast, just to see if anything happened overnight.

It never does, but you have to look, don't you?

Until today.

Yesterday, this was a nice green piece of, well, if not lawn then at least it was green and flat. This morning we found this.

There's only one thing that would have done this much damage. We have been visited by a sanglier, a wild boar. It was Sunday yesterday and we did hear the distant sound of Frenchmen participating in their favourite weekend sport, la chasse. Maybe they just flushed this one out yesterday and in our direction. We are quite relieved that we didn't get around to making anything of this part of the garden this year. Next year there will be a swimming pool there, terracing and, it is planned, a nice herbacious border. I don't know whether the boar would dig up a planted garden, I suppose it depends on the plants and their density. I think I'll need to do a bit of research on this one.