OOOOPs! ..........

I suppose some of you may have noticed that I've been very quiet lately! (Not like me, I have to add!)

Well, there are several explanations - I had the family visiting for a week so that meant that for a few days before they arrived there was a great deal of cleaning, tidying and general sorting to be done. Then the week they were here I was too busy to sit down at all and when they had all gone there was more tidying and washing to be done. Phew!

So all done and dusted (quite literally) and Him Indoors is away for four days working and OOOPS! the internet connection that we have here provided by Orange France goes down; the so-called Livebox is more like a Deadbox, and I can't get it mended for SIX days. But finally I'm back!

I've been planning a couple of posts while I've been out of contact. Here is the best!

Just before the family arrived I took a quick walk up into the forest behind the house, to stretch my legs and try to start my TGOC training.

I was perturbed to discover the foresters were working, felling trees and making huge muddy tracks where there were little paths before. Added to that my favourite walk was blocked off with a notice saying 'Interdit au public'.  So I took a bit of a detour and some photos.

{The notice closing the path to the public}

{Ooops! Don't walk this way either!}

Then, after I turned back, I came across a patch of hard snow where I discovered these frozen tracks!

{Large prints in the snow}

{My hand next to one of the paw prints}

I will admit to being a bit overexcited and rushed back home - this time with photographs! I have no proof they are wolf prints but they are exactly the same as the ones I saw before.

I googled 'un loup Reotier' in the hope of finding something interesting and I certainly did! By the way, I have not got permission to show this photo but I'm very pleased to find it and I'm 'borrowing' it to show you. It was taken in February 2009, by someone called Googleyse.

{A wolf photographed running across the road less than a kilometre away from here}