I enjoyed reading about where you are, Obelixx. When we were in St Sebastian you could order sides of vegetables or a salad.
Mucked out the winter field shelter this afternoon. It's now ready for a hay delivery. Also sowed broad beans in pots. Haven't done it before, they are in the GH. When I sow them outside here they don't usually survive the winter, too cold and/or wet. More extreme here than England.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Obelixx, thank you for the tree information. I think it was it's survival of the bombing that was lodged in my memory. I like the idea of the acorn successors.
Great pics Obxx Love the tree story, and how they are keeping it going.
I know its still early, but I’m heading up the stairs already. Reading Jane Eyre for the first time ever , and I’m within touching distance of the end. Loving it (apart from the daft coincidences, which I thought were only a hallmark of Dickens, but the Chicklets inform me they are the bread and butter of most victorian literature )
Chicky - Dickens and the Brontes are full of utter trite and tripe! Dislike them all with a vengeance.
I call underpinnings "engineering", being a "gifted" woman.
No greens Liri but some pulses. Went to the Indian and ordered veggie samosas and chick pea something for our starters. Samosas large, funny pastry and filled with potato and chick peas. Chick peas dish was day-glo orange! Someone round here has decreed that tomato sauces will be smooth, sweet and bland. Cook-in sauces for the mains and no onions in a dopiaza!
Have told Possum we are definitely finding a supermarket and buying salads and raw veggies for a picnic lunch tomorrow whilst hunting hills and villages inland. The Belgian Ardennes have deep valleys cut in them but the tops are more like low fells so she's enjoying having proper, lumpy hills to look at and explore.
Clari - hope you can see to read OK!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Jim Reeves, eh? Takes me back.....When I was looking for the name of a piece of music for my Dad's funeral, I tripped over 'The Last Farewell' by Roger Whittaker. I had no recollection of the name or the singer but when I heard the song, I knew all the words . I think it must be because Dad used to listen to Junior Choice on the radio on Saturday mornings - I remember 'Ernie the Fastest Milkman' and Bernard Cribbins and also ones like 'The Island of Dreams'. I guess there are a few songs that I didn't like particularly but still they got in the hindbrain and are stuck in there now.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I loved Jane Eyre. How could you dislike Dickens and the Brontes with a vengeance? Dickens brought to people's attention the state of the poor as well as being good tales.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I enjoyed reading about where you are, Obelixx. When we were in St Sebastian you could order sides of vegetables or a salad.
Mucked out the winter field shelter this afternoon. It's now ready for a hay delivery. Also sowed broad beans in pots. Haven't done it before, they are in the GH. When I sow them outside here they don't usually survive the winter, too cold and/or wet. More extreme here than England.
Ob....some pics please to cheer us up
Obelixx, thank you for the tree information. I think it was it's survival of the bombing that was lodged in my memory. I like the idea of the acorn successors.
Busy, I hope that mice don't get to your beans.
Bilbao Left bank (probably)
Guggenheim spider
Colourful pathways and parks abound
Guggenheim and moon at sunset
Used in Game of Thrones, apparently
Viewed from hilltops to the west of Burkia
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That looks lovely, Obelixx. Hope you find some "greens"...
"Underpinnings" raised a titter here too
Great pics Obxx
Love the tree story, and how they are keeping it going.
I know its still early, but I’m heading up the stairs already. Reading Jane Eyre for the first time ever
, and I’m within touching distance of the end. Loving it (apart from the daft coincidences, which I thought were only a hallmark of Dickens, but the Chicklets inform me they are the bread and butter of most victorian literature 
)
Not even 21:00 and I'm tucked up in bed. Reggie and I are home alone so I begrudge putting the heating on. Bad enough I have to pay for lighting!
Sweet dreams all.
Chicky - Dickens and the Brontes are full of utter trite and tripe! Dislike them all with a vengeance.
I call underpinnings "engineering", being a "gifted" woman.
No greens Liri but some pulses. Went to the Indian and ordered veggie samosas and chick pea something for our starters. Samosas large, funny pastry and filled with potato and chick peas. Chick peas dish was day-glo orange! Someone round here has decreed that tomato sauces will be smooth, sweet and bland. Cook-in sauces for the mains and no onions in a dopiaza!
Have told Possum we are definitely finding a supermarket and buying salads and raw veggies for a picnic lunch tomorrow whilst hunting hills and villages inland. The Belgian Ardennes have deep valleys cut in them but the tops are more like low fells so she's enjoying having proper, lumpy hills to look at and explore.
Clari - hope you can see to read OK!
Bilbao looks interesting
Jim Reeves, eh? Takes me back.....When I was looking for the name of a piece of music for my Dad's funeral, I tripped over 'The Last Farewell' by Roger Whittaker. I had no recollection of the name or the singer but when I heard the song, I knew all the words
. I think it must be because Dad used to listen to Junior Choice on the radio on Saturday mornings - I remember 'Ernie the Fastest Milkman' and Bernard Cribbins and also ones like 'The Island of Dreams'. I guess there are a few songs that I didn't like particularly but still they got in the hindbrain and are stuck in there now. 
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I loved Jane Eyre. How could you dislike Dickens and the Brontes with a vengeance? Dickens brought to people's attention the state of the poor as well as being good tales.