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Didi and "her" rabbit
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Didi guarding "her" rabbit
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Fabrice arriving home with dinner at the opening of the Wood pigeon (Palombe) season
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Two Palombes (Wood Pigeon) on the table ready for plucking
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These with potatoes, parsley garden and veg fed five people and our four dogs got the juice in their kibble
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Fab's St Valentine's hare 4 kilos
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...and a wild rabbit dashes by
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Very early in the morning
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as the light comes up
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and the palombe pass
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and you wait and wait
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and the tame birds are posed in the trees
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everything's ready
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don't look down - this was taken from the top of a palombière in Bourrou our village
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still waiting
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et encore....
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and finally you've bagged two and they make a wonderful meal for three or four with ceps and potatoes in red wine
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Christmas day rabbits
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Training the pups for rabbit hunting