A large odd beetle, possibly like a Maybug, quite big, that's Dave's foot at the top !!
Sorry this is not wildlife, this is Amelle making baskets at her market stall.
This is also not 'wildlife' but a nice scene on route to a artisan Fête.
Is it Bill or is it Ben? we had two of these , caterpillers but unfortunatly never saw the butterflies.
This is after the lintel was replaced with a new lintel, nicked from Aniks pile of chestnut beams which she has just had taken out of her house.......how convenient !
Back to the over door repair, i must apologise for the order of these photos !
Here is what we found when we knocked the cement off over the doorway!
This is the support Dave had to put in to support the chimney stack, as the original had no means of support that we could see.......
drying the boards in the sun,
This is where it started to go horribly wrong, as you will see later, or may already have seen.
Dave and the van we have come to know as Victoria (don't ask)
a very tired Kiwi
Aniks house minus its lovely (but dangerous)stone roof.........
We arrived the day their roofers were finishing, so as this calls for a celebration we were invited to join in, and here is the bread oven being lit, for pizzas, and the following pictures as it gets going.......
2 Janes get chopping
and preparing the pizzas
The builders, Jane & Frank
after the fire has gone.......
and a beautiful black butterfly, is it a very dark ringlet?? (andrew??)
One for Jane's brother, a metal sculpture of a praying mantis ........at the traffic lights !
