2013-12-30 Last few pictures of 2013

 

 

Who lives in a house like this……??

 

 

 

2013-12-13 Kung Fu Ardéchoise style

 

 

 

 

And early Christmas Pressies………….

Pokémon and my little pony…….

My Little Darlings :O)

2013-12-13 FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH !

We were travelling to the Ardeche on Friday the Thirteenth and this is what our dashboard said ………


That’s 1.13 pm and the temperature 13C too….spooky !

2013-12-03 My Birthday in the snow.

 

We took a drive behind the mountain……it was sunny and no sign of snow……then we crossed the 1000m high mark and we found this stuff !

 

 

 

Road was a bit icy, and as our tyres were a bit on the ….errrr low side…..we had to go a little bit SLOWLY !

 

Look at that view, and so clear today !

Yes that is snow in the foreground.

 

The most unfortunate thing was that for the FIRST time we saw a Mouflon ….. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouflon 

but too slow to take a photo…….  :O(

2013-11-26 Fire Hog !

 

Some animals know where the warmest place is……..and are happy to keep everyone else away :O) (yes that is a table tennis “football”, she had just had a hard game of chase!!)

2013-11-26 New Vegetable for us “Yacon”

 

Coming from South America it is advertised as being good for diabetes, so I had to try it. It is supposed to grow 2 m high, so we were not expecting much from ours which was barely 80cm high !

BUT….we had 5 good edible tubers and numerous “red” buds to plant next year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yac%C3%B3n

Might grow it again next year, depends if we can get rid of the unfortunate side effects :O(

 

 

2013-11-22 First SNOW !

 

 

First snow on the new terrace.

2013-11-13 Winter plant shelter

 

 

Dave has constructed a winter shelter under the new terrace, as the lemon tree is too big now to move down to the cave……I also have a tender hibiscus and all the pelargonium's of course……..

I lined it with bubble wrap and Dave has made the outside with builders strength plastic….light and wind proof….we hope !

all wrapped up and hopefully warm for the winter………..

2013-11-10 Progress on terrace

 

 

The 10th of November thru to 17th November.

Above the terrace gets a new gutter, just in time as rain is forecast !

 

 

Rain arrives, but Dave is determined to finish this part !

 

 

 

 

These below were taken this morning (17th) and its still raining…….

These in front of the bedroom door are a temporary measure, this part will be enclosed eventually….probably next spring/summer now !

 

2012-11-01 Mike and Sarah’s visit & the Olargues chestnut fete.

 

Our first guests test out the terrace…….. not too near the edge as there is no balustrade yet !

Olargues chestnut fete………lots of dancing in the street…weather stayed nice for a change !

 

   

 

We went for a short walk on Sunday, and found a stunningly good cep !

 

Monday came too soon….but, we spent a very entertaining few hours in Beziers before the airport :O(

  A poster in the American diner…….how rude !

 

playing with the water feature…………thats the next picture, not the one above !

Friends :O)