Liberté des Anes (English)

I would just like to let you know that we now have a large stock of English books at the shop. We are selling these at 1 euro a piece on behalf of the donkey sanctuary 'Liberté des Anes'.
 
Please pop by and pick up a winter read or two.
 
With best regards,
 
Steve Micklethwaite
Carpetman France
Lot 5B, 2 rue Voltaire
82000 MONTAUBAN
Tél : 05-63-20-51-59

Dear everyone
 
By popular request our next fundraising lunch will be held here at Lavolvene on wednesday 27th november.  We will start at 1.oclock, come earlier if you would like to look through the donated items we have for sale.  our menu this month is called
   
"A U T U M N    S U R P R I S E"
 
offering an
APERITIF with TASTY NIBBLES
then            
SPICEY PUMPKIN SOUP
followed by   
BASQUE CHICKEN SAUTE with CHORIZO or VEGETARIAN OPTION
and   
DUTCH APPLE LATTICE PIE with ICECREAM & CHANTILLY
together with   
COFFEE / TEA
 
This lovely meal will cost you 15 euros each including wine.
Please e mail to us to confirm your place.
 
Our latest donkey arrivals are all doing well ....  Petronille has put on weight and her wounds have healed.  She is a very friendly donkey and she eats more than any donkey i have ever owned.
 
Bourro is managing without daily pain killers and with regular toe trimming of his hooves they are growing at the correct angle which should eventually allow him to walk normally and with correct feeding his agonising laminitis should be a thing of the past.  He loves to have his face scratched. If only i had all day spare to spend standing next to him !
 
Denise is putting on weight, she has had several visits from the farrier to trim her hooves correctly and her milk has now dried up.  She is now a much happier donkey.
 
Hoping to see you all here again for another jolly day.
 
jan

hello everyone

just a reminder for you to book your place at our lunch and vide grenier with loads of books, lovely clothes and donated bric a brac on thursday 3rd october at lavolvene, 82150 belveze.  we hope to start to eat at 1 pm so we will open our shop from 12 onwards,  we need you to mail us to confirm you can come to enjoy our tasty lunch of QUICHE, QAKE AND QOFFEE, wine included with delicious home made food for 15 euros.

if you have been following the news of our latest arrivals you will be interested to see new photos.

firstly bourro looking much better than on arrival.   

then a photo of coccinelle when we collected her, this was only about a month before her baby was born and as you can see there is certainly no sign of any baby in her tummy here, certainly her hooves have been trimmed perfectly now.

and lastly petronille, her rubs came from when she travelled before we collected her as we use a piece of foam to stop our animals rubbing and injuring themselves.

we look forward to hearing back from you and thank you in advance for your support for all the donkeys here, we can only continue to keep everyone healthy and happy through your generosity.

jan lemmy

dear everyone

i am sorry that we will have to cancel our lunch scheduled for thursday 26th sept. Christina has some illness in the family and wont be able to cook for us all.  She hopes to invite you on your journey on The Orient Express at a future date .. watch this space.

In the mean time we will be holding a different type of lunch on thursday 3rd October and i do hope you can all come along.  This lunch will take the theme of QUICHE, QAKE AND QOFFEE !!  and we will also be holding an enormous Vide Grenier to sell all the lovely items of clothing, books and bric a brac which have been donated to the donkeys for resale.  we have an enormous amount here which we hope to sell on that day. all items will be at bargain prices.  bring along anything on the day that you wish to donate !

Please support us by coming on thursday 3rd october, the price for this meal will be 15 euros, including wine, all proceeds to the donkeys.  We will offer you delicious quiches with salad, potato salad and wine, cakes and coffee to follow. 

We have another new donkey in called Denise who had terribly deformed hooves on arrival.  Our farrier came yesterday to trim her hooves and she is so much better.  Unfortunaely for her, when she arrived, she had a full udder and was distressed so i tracked back to where she came from to see if we could buy her foal which she had obviously just left behind, as she was searching everywhere for her, but through a dealer we learnt that her previous owners wanted to keep the foal and get rid of the mother !! she is grazing with 2 other female donkeys for company and making progress day by day, although she is still looking around, so sad but nothing more i can do for her except keep her happy !!

hope to hear back from you all soon.

jan

Thank you to all of you who came along for our recent lunch, 50 people in all !! Many people wrote in to thank us for the lovely meal and different menu !  

Our next lunch will be held on Thursday 26th September and it will take the form of a journey on the Orient Express with food from each country you pass through on the train !  I will send out the menu soon but please keep a space in your diary for that date.

Those of you who met Petronille, our new donkey, know that she has only been with us for a month.  At the same time that we saved her we also collected a small, old, thin dark brown donkey. Christina kindly said she would take her to live with her 2 other donkeys.  Well yesterday morning imagine Christina's surprise and delight when she went out to find a tiny donkey foal who had been born during the night !!  Here are photos of NIGELLA who we think has been aptly christened.  Thanks to your support this little old donkey Coccinelle was saved and also the life of her baby.

Thank you for all your continued support .... menu to follow.

dear everyone
 
we have been receiving requests for another lunch before the summer ends so we would be very happy to entertain you and it would be great if you can come along next sunday 1st september to join us for lunch.
 
we will start at around 1 pm and as its only next week now please e mail back asap with your choice for each course from the attached menu, vegetarians always welcome. 15 euros for a tasty lunch with as much as you can eat, wine included.
 
Tell all your friends too and come to meet Petronille, our new elderly donkey who came to us very stressed after going through two meat markets before settling happily with us. she seems to know we have saved her life. 
 
All proceeds go to pay the costs of keeping all the animals we take in, and each week there are requests for us to take more and more, unfortunately we have to say no to many donkeys.
 
thank you for all your support, our work could not continue without your continued interest in what we do here at lavolvene.
 
jan lemmy

hello everyone
 
we only have 13 people coming so far for our arabian meal, thats great but last time it was 46 ! there are so many people away in the uk at the moment, we know its a tuesday but we dont think its the menu, we think you are all a bit too hot ... you can come earlier than 1 and swim if you like, those with young children can even eat next to the pool if you prefer ??
 
also the tree over the pool is full of ripe cherries .....you are very welcome to bring a pot and pick as many as you can reach, as long as the birds dont beat you to it !
 
all you folk who havent been before why not come along for a truely sumptuous meal which although tasty we promise wont be too hot ! only 15 euros for as much as you can eat, wine included.
 
hope to hear from a few more people so we can raise lots to look after the 23 donkeys we keep here at the moment.
 
if you came for lunch in june please talk again to poor BOURRO who is looking so much better since he arrived only a few weeks ago!
 
thanks
 
jan

Let the barn rafters ring to tunes with banjo and violin

Music starts at 7.30pm at Mas del Sol, Varen on Monday August 12th

Interval with sausage sandwiches served in the price.

Seats can be reserved at 10 euros per head.

Bring a bottle of wine and glasses.

All monies going to ''Liberte des Anes'' the local donkey refuge/ sanctuary.

Places are limited to 50, so book early to avoid disappointment.

Everyone welcomed and directions can be given to Mas del Sol if you have not been before.

Tickets ordered by contacting mail@bromlea.com

Let us hope we can raise some money with this 

Love Val
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Dear Everyone,

       Please come and support us for an aromatic lunch on Tuesday 23rd July, starts at 1pm, and only costs 15€. All proceeds go towards rescuing and keeping Donkeys here.

      Here's the menu with an Arabic theme. The food will be spicy and tasty but not hot.

       As this is now only next Tuesday, please come back to us with your menu choices with your reservation, so we can get out there and do the shopping!

       Thank you for all your support for our Donkeys at Lavolvene.

Jan Lemmy

dear everyone
 
please come to our lunch to support the donkeys here at LIBERTE DES ANES, lavolvene, 82150 belveze on sunday 30th june. 

we have an exciting Italian menu for you to choose from, it all starts at 1 pm and will cost you 15 euros for as much as you can eat and drink !!
 
please let us know when reserving your place if you would like your starter with or without tuna fish and whether you prefer the meat or vegetarian option for the main course, then either choose from tiramisu or stuffed peaches for your desert.
 
come and meet Bourro, who we collected only this week, he is an old stallion and was in a lot of pain with laminitis as his previous owner didnt attend to his hooves for years and left him to graze on too much rich grass.  he is now eating mostly hay and barley straw and having bute medicine twice a day to take away the agonising pain he is in.  we hope we can make a difference after all the abuse he has suffered and make his remaining years painfree.
 
thanks and we look forward to welcoming you once again to lavolvene.
 
jan lemmy