29/11/2019 Back home.......

Maximum temperature in the Charente today 13C, minimum 5C. 8 mm of rain measured this morning. 15km/h Westerly winds with gusts up to 54 km/h!!

Just to keep you up to date with what is happening at home in France while I go through many, many holiday photos.  Part 3 to follow soon.

Down the road, autumn colours and energetic cyclists.

Looking the other way - grey skies.

Home and a very wet road.

Struggling roses in the garden...

As above.

Snapdragons.

Moss.

Homegrown ginger root.

Homemade mincemeat ready for mince pies.  All made from our own homegrown dried fruit.  It will be interesting to see if the pies taste better than the usual bought ones 😊

See also my

 Bird blog

22/05/2017 Another day busy in the garden, this could become habit!!

Maximum temperature 25C, minimum 11C.  12 km/h SW wind.   Some rain this morning not measured as yet.

Bumble Bee in the sage.

Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum)

As above...

As above.

Chrysocrambus craterellus

Mirabelle plums - 6 trees laden!

The quince tree also looks very promising.

Climbing rose.

Snapdragon.

Sweet William on a background of sage - spot the bee.

13/05/2016 Still raining!!!!

Maximum temperature 17C, minimum  10C.   35 km/h SW winds. 3mm of rain measured but we are having continuous drizzle.

Collected my new wide angle lens today very exciting. As you can see the tiling is still under cover!

Drizzle on the windscreen!

 A trip to the dechetterie (dump).

I will never get used to post and telephone boxes not in red!

Bee on the borage - again.

Choisya ternata.

Must have been some pollination going on as I see we have baby granny smith apples :-)

Even the snail is in his house out of the rain!

Snapdragon.

Sweet William.

09/05/2016 Raining! All photos taken from inside the house.

Maximum temperature 20C, minimum 13C.  58 kms/h NE winds.  Rain not measured yet.

A visitor,  the Magpie considered to be one of the most intelligent of birds, but they are very noisy!

Snapdragons....

as above.

Very wet Love in a Mist

The tiling is under cover!!

26/11/2015 Scraping the bottom of the barrel for photos today!!! Wet and dismal,

Maximum temperature 10C, minimum 4C. 50 km/h NW wind gusts.   7mm rain not forecast!

There was a patch of blue up there from time to time!

Fir and rain drops

Holly.

Leaves and rain drops.

Lichen....

As above.

Moss.

A rock puddle.

The neighbours snapdragons.

Clearing out the other barn!!

01/09/2015 A trip to St Adjutory to play scrabble, More figs bottled in the morning!

Maximum temperature 24C minimum 15C. 29 km/h NW wind. 18mm rain overnight.