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Saturday, November 14, 2015

14/11/2015 A very sad day for Paris. A few local photos.

Maximum temperature 16C,minimum 5C. 11 km/h variable wind. Dry.

Peace candle for Paris today.

Last week this was woodland....

today it has gone!

Wow great progress for Lidl with what was open land a week ago....

as above.

Oysters for lunch today.

Cosmos and bee,

As above.

Red robin.

Acer seeds.

Broad Beans.

Garlic.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

03/05/2015 Day one, drive to Albert and visit to the WW1 museum.

Maximum temerature in Albert France 17C, minimum 9C. 20 mm measured at home this morning and still raining. Rain all the way to Paris, a short break, then more. It stopped just as we reached Albert!

And still it rains.....

Look hard in the centre - do you see the Eiffel Tower?

Nearing Albert.

Notre Dame de Brebieres in Albert.

Wall near the museum.

At the entrance of Musee Somme 1916

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

30/09/2014 Been in the kitchen all afternoon so not a lot of time for photos. A few more of last week in Paris.

Maximum temperature 23C. Dry.

Monday, September 29, 2014

29/09/2014 It has been a grey day today and not a lot to take photos of other than a couple of lizards. Some more photos of last week in Paris.

Maximum temperature 21C. 14mm of rain early this morning.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

28/09/201 Autumn colours in the garden. Four photos from Versailles, Paris.

Maximum temperature 25C. Dry.

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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