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Monday, June 17, 2013

17-06-2013 Dave at work…….

 

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Dave trimming a window to fit his new barn.

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The cheese press……I have been making my own hallumi and needed a cheese press……Dave made one. It works beautifully :O)

Monday, June 10, 2013

10-06-2013 Wildlife Month of June, spiders to snakes.

 

A wolf spider

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Another misty morning !

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It never fails to amaze me, how many flowers grow here, which also grow in the UK, I thought it would be completely different……but we have wild daffodils and snowdrops in the spring, and beautiful foxgloves in the summer.

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Is this called Catchfly?

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A couleuvre snake, not a montpellier, but another one ! this one was about 1m long.

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Woolly monster……….

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After  3 years I have finally got flowers on my sisyrinchium.

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Along with the Lychnis , its starting to look quite nice :O)

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This is our Fennel bed, its purely for the Swallowtail butterflies to lay their eggs on, and their caterpillars to feed on. Well we are still hoping !

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And finally the ‘top bed’ where we put more shrubs last year, and it is also starting to ‘blossom’.

The little dianthus at the front of the bed is a wild flower.

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This is an amusing picture, sadly a little out of focus…..its two dung beetles , moving a dung ball, around and around the top of a water tank……..how they got it up there is a mystery !

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La lune.

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Encore la lune !

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After a very windy night, one of the cherry trees has shed a branch. (its in the field next to us, not ours) Dave went and chopped it up so it was out of the way.

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We decided to prune the small cherry trees back a bit.

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Bonus ……..easy to pick cherries !

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another snake at a neighbours house.

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A noise in a watering can, when investigated , became this beautiful lizard.

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Its an eyed lizard, still has his tail, so he has not me our cat….YET !

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Sunday, June 09, 2013

09-06-2013 Mushrooms !!!

We had SEVERAL days of rain, and its not too cold, so we got mushrooms :O)

Chantrelles  (girolles)

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Chantrelles and two tiny Ceps.

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A chantrelle, with a bigger stem……. 

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Ceps

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Amethyst deceiver…..edible be may be radio active :O)

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Sunday, June 02, 2013

02-06-2013 John and us at the Restaurant sur l’orb.

Starter for me a goats cheese ravioli with avocado……….yum yum !!

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Main plate:- stuffed tomato, sliced courgette, aubergine with tomato sauce, polenta , 2 spicy light balls of yummy something, and a creamed Jerusalem artichoke in the pot.

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The boys had steak, which they were very pleased with.

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And for Dessert ?

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I had tea !