Started raining as I went to bed last night, but I slept through without disturbance from the weather. Wild and windy out now though. Looks like weird rain, but it’s actually needles from the Scots pine trees. Just been a huge gust that rattled the windows and the flaps on the extractor fan. Bits of sunshine gleaming through though. Just eaten a bowl of porridge with dried apricots and a dribble of cream on top. Bliss!
We have another variety here - Wallaroo. They are a cross between kangaroos and wallabies. They look like a smallish kangeroo but nearly black in colour. We saw some recently, but I didn’t have time to get my camera out in time. 😳
Great photos @D0rdogne_Damsel and you look relaxed and in control.
Numbers are increasing at the Beziers Hospital - our nurse neighbours are having a week off from Sunday onwards, so we are looking after their Old English Sheepdog, pussycat and are on garden watering duties. I hope they can decompress properly.
The Covid pass has been extended to 9th August, so it allows holiday makers some time. Vacc. Centres have been set up around the beach areas so that holidaymakers (and locals) can at least have their first vaccination. No pass, no entry ....anywhere. Not even for a glass of water outside a café. After about the 20th August (down here) tourists disappear back to their homes to prepare for school entry and work. Then the retired crew descend in their camper vans. It's usually mild weather here until late October/early November.
I hope you all have a good day in spite of deer-munchers, foxes etc destroying your gardens. No predators like that here, just wily pigeons and turtle doves who swoop down on my garden and boss the other birds around the feeding area I have created for them.
Today's expression: A la Sainte Juliette, l'été est en fête! And surely it is today. Have a pleasant day! Tui
Morning all, another bad night for sleeping due to thunder and torrential rain with hail stones thrown in for good measure. More work for you @D0rdogne_Damsel after the 9th August checking every ones health pass, as if you don't have enough to do! It's the season of camper vans all through the summer here @tui34. Thought I would try a courgette and lemon traybake cake this morning and then some painting this afternoon.
Cool start here with a dribble of rain. Good weather for decorating - 2nd coat today. In a normal year we get camper vans from Easter to Halloween but in greater numbers over July and August. Hordes of weekenders and 2nd homers Easter to Halloween especially over long weekends plus Xmas/NY. Then the beach bunnies thru July and August with Parisian hordes in August. We have learned never to try and drive on one of the main routes on a Saturday.
This summer we are staying away from the beach areas altogether as the Dutch, Germans, Belgians and inland French are bringing the Delta variant with them. We three are all vaccinated but don't want to risk picking up even a mild infection and passing it on.
Round here there is uproar from a suggestion by restaurateurs that retired people might like to volunteer to help them out as Covid Pass checkers.
Congrats on your award @D0rdogne_Damsel. Hope the new staff do well for you and you can have a day off yourself even if you don't close for a day.
No deer here as we are fenced and the local roe deer stick to the wooded areas and occasionally cross pastures and roads. So, fortunately, do the wild boar.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Morning all. I'm sitting in bed in the hotel we're in, letting a big cooked breakfast go down. Weather's not looking too good so resigned to getting wet at the wedding we're due to go to at midday. I've only got sandals to wear so tootsies might get a trifle waterlogged! OH's popped out to get the morning paper. Just spoken to son who's on holiday down near the coast in mid-Devon with the children. He said it had been very wet and windy all night and the campervan was rocking so he didn't get much sleep - the children, bless him had slept right through it. Hope my plants and garden stuff didn't get blown around, I hadn't expected a storm so hadn't moved anything to safety. Hope everyone has a good day and it's not too wet wherever you are.
Hello again ... I'm back from the farm shop and butchery already and everything's unloaded, sanitised or put 'in isolation' and OH has made me a coffee and I'm watching the women's football. I've bought a piece of Silverside of beef ... I'll in the slow cooker for Sunday and will 'press' the rest of the joint for salads and/or sandwiches for lunch during the week. I also bought some more of their very good pork chops, two gammon steaks, sausages and some of their marinated Jerked beef ... think it's chunks of short rib ... not sure what I'll do with it ... I'll pick @WonkyWomble 's brains ... I think she and SIL have jerked beef quite often ... I suspect they have it quite 'firey' but the butcher assured me that theirs isn't too hot. I've also bought some frozen cod in breadcrumbs for this evening ... some thickish sliced ham for a lunchtime sandwich ... and then a carton of fresh raspberries and some of their very good local ice cream managed to leap into the trolley when I wasn't looking I know it happens in garden centres, but has that ever happened to you in a farm shop?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning folks,just a quick dip in. Went to bed before 10, shattered,so awake at 3. Done washing, dishwasher,and made 2 gooseberry crumble,at cheap rate leccy.
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Just eaten a bowl of porridge with dried apricots and a dribble of cream on top. Bliss!
Great photos @D0rdogne_Damsel and you look relaxed and in control.
Numbers are increasing at the Beziers Hospital - our nurse neighbours are having a week off from Sunday onwards, so we are looking after their Old English Sheepdog, pussycat and are on garden watering duties. I hope they can decompress properly.
The Covid pass has been extended to 9th August, so it allows holiday makers some time. Vacc. Centres have been set up around the beach areas so that holidaymakers (and locals) can at least have their first vaccination. No pass, no entry ....anywhere. Not even for a glass of water outside a café. After about the 20th August (down here) tourists disappear back to their homes to prepare for school entry and work. Then the retired crew descend in their camper vans. It's usually mild weather here until late October/early November.
I hope you all have a good day in spite of deer-munchers, foxes etc destroying your gardens. No predators like that here, just wily pigeons and turtle doves who swoop down on my garden and boss the other birds around the feeding area I have created for them.
Today's expression: A la Sainte Juliette, l'été est en fête! And surely it is today.
Have a pleasant day!
Tui
More work for you @D0rdogne_Damsel after the 9th August checking every ones health pass, as if you don't have enough to do!
It's the season of camper vans all through the summer here @tui34.
Thought I would try a courgette and lemon traybake cake this morning and then some painting this afternoon.
Cool start here with a dribble of rain. Good weather for decorating - 2nd coat today. In a normal year we get camper vans from Easter to Halloween but in greater numbers over July and August. Hordes of weekenders and 2nd homers Easter to Halloween especially over long weekends plus Xmas/NY. Then the beach bunnies thru July and August with Parisian hordes in August. We have learned never to try and drive on one of the main routes on a Saturday.
This summer we are staying away from the beach areas altogether as the Dutch, Germans, Belgians and inland French are bringing the Delta variant with them. We three are all vaccinated but don't want to risk picking up even a mild infection and passing it on.
Round here there is uproar from a suggestion by restaurateurs that retired people might like to volunteer to help them out as Covid Pass checkers.
Congrats on your award @D0rdogne_Damsel. Hope the new staff do well for you and you can have a day off yourself even if you don't close for a day.
No deer here as we are fenced and the local roe deer stick to the wooded areas and occasionally cross pastures and roads. So, fortunately, do the wild boar.
Looks like another damp day. I'll go for my morning patrol lap in a minute.
Was that glass big enough @D0rdogne_Damsel
Just spoken to son who's on holiday down near the coast in mid-Devon with the children. He said it had been very wet and windy all night and the campervan was rocking so he didn't get much sleep - the children, bless him had slept right through it.
Hope my plants and garden stuff didn't get blown around, I hadn't expected a storm so hadn't moved anything to safety.
Hope everyone has a good day and it's not too wet wherever you are.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.