10/06/2018 Still trying to catch up.

Maximum temperature today 24C, minimum 16C.    Rainfall, 20 mm last night; 9 km/h South Westerly winds with up to 27 km/h gusts.

Total rainfall since 1st January; 626 mm.  Storms forecast for today and the next couple of days

Happy Birthday Mum.  She would have been 103 today.

Our arrival in Rhodesia 1953. My brother David 1936-1957, my father, myself and my Mum.

Ladybird in the garden...

Bee...

Speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria).

Bee on the cotoneaster.

Last week we tried out a new restaurant in Marcillac-Lanville called Les Nymphéas...

We arrived early so I took this photo inside before the place filled up.  

Five courses with wine for €13.50.  I will not show you all the courses, I don't want you all to be feeling very hungry 😉

Walking around the town afterwards, this is the Mairie...

the local pub...

the boulangerie...

Watering point...

The hairdresser...

and this mural outside a small shop.  There were two cars parked in front so I had to make a sort of collage so you could see it all in one.  Catching the big fish.

N.B. My bird blog is updated  HERE 

Part 12 of the birds I saw last year in Africa.

25/12/2013 Happy Christmas

Maximum temperature in Devizes 5C rain late afternoon.

Home in the Charente maximum 9C and some rain.

18/12/2013 Went to a pensioner's lunch today with FIL in Devizes.

Maximum in Devizes 10C and raining.

Maximum at home in the Charente 13C and sunny!!

17/12/2013 We met up with a distant cousin for lunch today in Reading. A quick walk to the shops in Devizes.

Maximum temperature in Devizes 7C but dry.

Home in the Charente 13C and sunny!

07/06/2013 Catching up with the past week in the UK.

Maximum temperature today 27C.  Thunder storms forecast for tonight.

Hopefully the daily dairy will get back to normal again now.  I have so many photos to go through though, the other blogs will take a while to catch up!!