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Thursday, April 20, 2017

20/04/2017 Very windy and chilly out. Photos very difficult as everything is blowing all over the place.

Maximum temperature 14C, minimum -3C. 24 kmh NE wind with 39 kmh gusts. Horrible outside again despite the blue sky. Dry.

Bluebells.

Snowball bush - Viburnum.

Lilac.

Choisya ternata.

Bearded irises trying hard to stay upright!

Cherries hopefully are surviving the cold.

Tulip.

Easter bunnies.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

27/03/2016 Out for a walk. Happy Easter.

Maximum temperature 13C, minimum 5C. 54 km/h W wind. 5mm rain measured over night.

Easter eggs. Also chocolates inside the eggs :-)

Unknown caterpillar.

Hawthorn flowers.

Pansies on the bridge over Le Rivaillon.

Nouveautés - L.Maury This was a drapery many years ago apparently. Now I think just a home.

Dovecote in a barn.

Looking back over the top of Vitrac.

Forsythia.

A very odd fungus growing on a tree.

Love this post box.

Wonder what this is?

Yet another view of the Resistance Memorial at Chasseneuil.

Friday, March 8, 2013

08/03/2013 French Lesson and a trip to La Rochefoucauld

Maximum temperature 15C. 4mm of rain.

Shadows Along the Zambezi by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I so enjoyed this book and towards the end I could not put it down only finishing at 2am! Having lived most of my early life in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, so many places had a lot of meaning to me. Diana’s knowledge of every detail in this book is incredible.
Sadly, so much of this story is fact and very true. It made me cry and at times it made me smile. I hope that it might awaken the world as to what is going on in many African countries, and instead of so many people burying their heads in the sand, perhaps they might stand up and do something. Smuggling and hunting are very soon going to leave the world a very sad place when there are no animals left.
Now I am off to read Shadows over an African Heart.

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Shadows Over an African Heart: a novel by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Shadows over an African Heart is the perfect name for this book. The shadows are even bigger than I ever dreamt, and this book is a real eye-opener to the truth of what is going on. I was in tears in many places in this book. The fictional side story I so enjoyed, but the true and very sad story of the elephants and other animals; the Zimbabwe government has so much to answer for.
The world needs to read both of Diana’s books and action needs to be taken before the children of today never see wildlife as we have had the joy to grow up with around us.
There are many African words in the story which to me were great to be reminded of, but many are explained as you read and there is a good glossary of the words in the back of the book.

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