Yesterday it snowed most of the day and today the snow was thawing noticeably. What fun trying to guess what might happen next. Walking into town to get a few provisions for us and another 3kgs of sunflower kernels for…
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More Winter, More Visitors
Just when I thought life was beginning to thaw out a little, today the snow started again. Well, to be completely accurate I think it started sometime overnight judging by the fresh covering we had at breakfast. So, another day…
Inappropriate Names
It was our 2005 trip to Crete that started me thinking this way. After the highlight of the trip, a stunning walk down the impressive Samaria Gorge, we caught a ferry to Loutro, a delightful village round a horseshoe-shaped bay…
Happy New Year; Sad Old Zoo
I’ve lost count of how many circuits of the sun our planet has made since last I visited London Zoo. Several years ago Carol and I met a friend in London and strolled along the Regents Canal which passes through…
Berry Defensive
Our Redwings have been back, foraging in the bush laden with red berries at the rear of our property. It’s curious how slightly different markings on a less familiar species make it more interesting to observe, giving it more than…
Winter Visitors
Visitors of the avian sort, that is. Last week in a moment of madness, I ventured out to walk along an unfamiliar stretch of our local Grand Union Canal in search of clues to a geocache. It was just an…
France, 2009 – Retrospective
We’ve been back from France for two weeks now and Autumn is definitely with us. I’ve finally finished sorting and processing our photographs which naturally jog the memories and prompt a little backward reflection. The weather was great. I’m even…
Eating Frogs Legs
This is by way of another retrospective post from our sadly now complete recent tour around La Belle France. I’m still engaged in processing our digital images trying to select those that I think will make a representative web album…
La Rigole
Yesterday we discovered the southern end of La Rigole, a 60-ish kilometre waterway built to supply water to the Canal du Midi from Les Montagnes Noires (the Black Mountains). Today we set out early enough to visit and cycle along…
Limoux
The dark clouds under which we had driven yesterday eventually produced a considerable amount of heavy overnight rain. At some small hour of the morning it finally ceased and I got to sleep. The morning dawned still very murky so,…
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