I had to get out of bed in the hotel last night as I was still awake at 3.30, too cold to sleep , to find the Air con set at 18C. I quickly reset it to 24C and eventually managed 3 whole hours sleep.
Hosta - you will have to set your heating to 24 tonight! I think 24 is the natural 'sweet spot' for humans. Ironically, this only happens 'once in a blue moon' in U.K.!
Hosta ....welcome home....looks like you guys had an interesting vacation....our apartment in Moscow like all the others is stifling .....+24 indoors ......
Hello everyone. Sorry for absence but some ******* tried to hack my PC thru the hotel Wifi so I shut it down. Paris was very grey - buildings and clouds - but dry. No flooding experienced except the Seine itself with all its usual pedestrian access banks well below water with lamp posts up to their neck in it - look between the tree and the wall to the left.
We didn't go in the Louvre but took this pic from its "gardens" through the arch to the ferris wheel at the Place de la Concorde and up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe
We saved the Eiffel tower for after dark. As you can see, no boats about to fit under the bridges so all river traffic halted except for the odd low-rise rubber police launch and swan.........
We were staying near here
We walked a lot. Possum's new fitness dooberry said 18,500 steps in Sunday, 24,600 on Monday and 22,500 on Tuesday, by which time my feet, newly free of arthritic pains thanks to Joyce and the curcuma, felt like every bone had been re-arranged. Fine this morning tho and very pleased to be home with ecstatic doggies, cuddly pussies, happy OH and the pond even fuller than when I left.
Happy belated birthday Dove. Welcome home Hosta and hope you warm up soon. I am looking forward to a good sleep too as our hotel was on a small 5 way junction with bars and restaurants on 4 of them and people sat outside chatting and socialising till the small hours. Does none of them have a normal job?
Too much to catch up on and comment so I'll just say Hi and hope you are well to everyone. Sweet dreams.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Wow, lots of great photos - thanks everyone. Welcome home Obelixx and Hosta. Sorry to hear about your puzzling lurgy LG. Sounds pretty grim. Hubby has informed me that it’s 2 degrees outside this morning and we are both snuggled under an extra blanket. He’s asleep, I’ve just woken up. So weird after being hit with weeks of days reaching up to 39 some days,
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Evening. Welcome home Hosta - nice Iris shop!
The moon does look quite impressive tonight:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-42890838
We've just had a look at it ... it does look big ... but not really very blue ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No moon visible here. Hail and sleet for us.
Have I ever said " I HATE BEING COLD"?
I had to get out of bed in the hotel last night as I was still awake at 3.30, too cold to sleep , to find the Air con set at 18C. I quickly reset it to 24C and eventually managed 3 whole hours sleep.
Hosta - you will have to set your heating to 24 tonight! I think 24 is the natural 'sweet spot' for humans. Ironically, this only happens 'once in a blue moon' in U.K.!
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/once-in-a-blue-moon.html
Aunty Rach, the wood burner is blazing and the house is warming up, slowly.
Hosta ....welcome home....looks like you guys had an interesting vacation....our apartment in Moscow like all the others is stifling .....+24 indoors ......
Hello everyone. Sorry for absence but some ******* tried to hack my PC thru the hotel Wifi so I shut it down. Paris was very grey - buildings and clouds - but dry. No flooding experienced except the Seine itself with all its usual pedestrian access banks well below water with lamp posts up to their neck in it - look between the tree and the wall to the left.
We didn't go in the Louvre but took this pic from its "gardens" through the arch to the ferris wheel at the Place de la Concorde and up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe
We saved the Eiffel tower for after dark. As you can see, no boats about to fit under the bridges so all river traffic halted except for the odd low-rise rubber police launch and swan.........
We were staying near here
We walked a lot. Possum's new fitness dooberry said 18,500 steps in Sunday, 24,600 on Monday and 22,500 on Tuesday, by which time my feet, newly free of arthritic pains thanks to Joyce and the curcuma, felt like every bone had been re-arranged. Fine this morning tho and very pleased to be home with ecstatic doggies, cuddly pussies, happy OH and the pond even fuller than when I left.
Happy belated birthday Dove. Welcome home Hosta and hope you warm up soon. I am looking forward to a good sleep too as our hotel was on a small 5 way junction with bars and restaurants on 4 of them and people sat outside chatting and socialising till the small hours. Does none of them have a normal job?
Too much to catch up on and comment so I'll just say Hi and hope you are well to everyone. Sweet dreams.
Last edited: 31 January 2018 20:46:44
Wow, lots of great photos - thanks everyone. Welcome home Obelixx and Hosta. Sorry to hear about your puzzling lurgy LG. Sounds pretty grim. Hubby has informed me that it’s 2 degrees outside this morning and we are both snuggled under an extra blanket. He’s asleep, I’ve just woken up. So weird after being hit with weeks of days reaching up to 39 some days,
Oberlix , glad you had a nice time , read about Seine doing a bit of flooding
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.