21/12/2020 Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and a much improved 2021.

   Maximum temperature here today 14⁰C, minimum 6⁰C.  3 mm of rain measured this morning but it has been raining all day.  23km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 46 km/h.   The freeze arrives on Christmas day.  Temperatures drop and frost arrives.

I had intended doing another blog before this one, but time caught up with me, and the speed of the WiFi just got worse.  I hope it will improve in the New Year but I do not have much hope.  I have picked one photo from each month of 2020, thankfully COVID has not as yet killed off my photos.  Probably not the best photos as far as photography goes, but the ones I like from each month

12.2 km walked yesterday the best ever!

14/01/2020 A sunset that looked like a fireworks display.

03/02/2020 Snow drops appear in the garden.

21/03/2020 Blossom and insects start to appear.  Mirabelle blossom and hoverflies.

11/04/2020 Butterflies are very visible out on my walks. Orange Tip butterflies  

(Anthocharis cardamines).  Male on the left and the female under the leaf.

25/05/2020 Lots of Damselflies around. Beautiful demoiselle Male (Calopteryx virgo).

09/06/2020 I just liked this shot of the Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis) eying up the hornet (Vespa crabro). They both finally decided to go in opposite directions!

04/07/2020 Happy and smiling Sunflowers.

16/08/2020 Lesser purple emperor, female butterfly (Apatura ilia).

11/09/2020 Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).

18/10/2020 Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum).

14/11/2020 One of our neighbour's little ponies, they have four, and none of them are higher than my waist.

16/12/2020 What else but a Robin for Christmas. (Erithacus rubecula).

Happy Christmas 

Gesëende Kersfees

Nginifisela inhlanhla ne mpumelelo e nyakeni

Nadolig Llawen

Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur

Buone Feste Natalizie

Feliz Natal

Feliz Navidad!

God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ar

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

 Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

 Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan

Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Sawadee Pee Mai

Gajan Kristnaskon

Froehliche Weihnachten

Kala Christouyenna

Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova.

Vrolijk Kerstmis en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar

See you all in 2021 I hope.

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Joining up with My Corner of the World.

21/04/2020 Day 35 of lock-down.

Maximum temperature here today 21⁰C, minimum 12⁰C.  4 mms rain measured this morning.  9km/h North-easterly wind with gusts up to 22 km/h. 

Bee, think it got confused as to which was the flower and which was the seed head!

Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria).

Bee on the quince blossom.

Crane-fly.

Love is in the air - crane-flies.

Green-veined white (Pieris napi).

Orange-tip Butterflies (Anthocharis cardamines).

Small white (Pieris rapae).

Common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis).

Cattle in the field just beyond our house.

Horses in a neighbour's paddock.

Not sure what this blossom is seen across the road but it is pretty!

I have made an extra page on the wildflowers seen at home, or very close by, which if you are interested in, you can see the link at the top of the page under the main heading, on the green line,

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08/04/2017 Still more photos on yesterday's walk, and three at the end from today.

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 5C.  13 kmh SE wind.   Dry.

Framed! Ha ha.

Orange tip - Anthocaris cardamines -Two males and one female with one aim in life.  Yes one did win her soon after this photo.

Lilac outside someones garden.

Narcissus by the side of the road.

Plantain.

Please think of me.

Purple dead nettle (I think).

Walking past our local chateau...

and their dam.

Back home today the tulip has opened.

The white bells are in full flower.

Market day today so we had fresh oysters and cider for lunch.