We have a local flock of starlings that regular strip our fig tree, just before all the fruits ripen enough for us. Some of them have stuck around this winter and I've just spotted that two of them have learned to use the hanging bird feeders. Incredible how fast they can demolish a block of fat and mealworms. Bah!
As @Busy-Lizzie says, pitstops on French motorways are much more frequently spaced and range from basic toilets and picnic tables in a marge lay-by to small cafées with fuel stations to the whole gamut. We avoid the simple ones as they are often still squats.
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)."
Comments about 'pit stops' in France remind me of a journey we made by coach to the South of France many years ago. The coach had a puncture so we stopped at a garage and cafe to get it fixed. The Gents toilet was at the front of the building and not far off being open air. The only thing to protect modesty was a 'curtain' made of multicoloured plastic strips, which only came down to waist level. Thankfully I didn't need to 'go' at that stop.
Our lab safety officer (admin grade not science) came running round like Corporal Jones when he discovered 5 tons of "radioactivity" had gone missing. Eventually we figured out that it was a big block of steel which had been dosed with a radioactive tracer for wear experiments many years before. There was more "radioactivity" in a banana than in the steel block, which had been sold for scrap years before.
I was driving through a 40mph area earlier when two cars came speeding past me. A few miles down the road I found them both parked at funny angles in the middle of the road with doors open and a bloke was chasing a woman towards the high bridge over the dual carriageway. By the time I got past there was some kind of full on domestic happening. Cars were stopping to make sure things were ok but I'm not sure what the outcome was. The bridge has full suicide protection barriers so just a cry for attention hopefully.
I'm grumpy because I finished my book last night and don't have anything to read in bed now. I guess we all have our problems
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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As @Busy-Lizzie says, pitstops on French motorways are much more frequently spaced and range from basic toilets and picnic tables in a marge lay-by to small cafées with fuel stations to the whole gamut. We avoid the simple ones as they are often still squats.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.