PhotoDiary: Belote

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Showing posts with label Belote. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

05/04/2018 Photos from the last few days. I am not keeping up very well!!!

Maximum temperature today 16C, minimum 9C. 6 mm of rain measured over the last two mornings; 20 km/h South Westerly winds with up to 53 km/h gusts.

Rain again today and very windy out.

Total rainfall so far this year now 412 mm.

Lawn daisy in the garden yesterday, with what I think is a fly of some kind. I am hoping that someone can identify it for me 😊

My possible identification is Hilara maura a species of dance fly but....

Tulips.

The road en route to scrabble yesterday. The sides of the road are full of cowslips and dandelions.

Cowslips.

Scrabble at St Adjutory.

Hawthorn in blossom.

Most of the people are playing the French card game belote....

we are playing scrabble as usual.

Yesterday's yellow tulip.

The kalanchoe today.

The yellow tulip today...

as above.

N.B. My new bird blog is HERE

Part 3 of the birds I saw last year in Africa.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

12/01/2016 Took time out today to go to scrabble, the first time I have played this year.

Maximum temperature 10C, minimum 3C 60 km/h Westerly winds. 9 mm of rain.

Arriving at Vitrac for scrabble, the rain had just stopped.

La Rivaillon, the stream that runs through the village is quite full though not in flood,

Looking from the other side of the bridge.

Pansy.

In the village.

The church, with the hall where we play scrabble on the right.

This table is full of belote players.

We stick with scrabble, quite complicated enough for us in French !

Having something to say it seems

to each other!

I was watching the elephant this morning at Tembe National Park, also various antelope and warthog. This evening at 21h11 I was lucky enough to see a lion go down for a drink.

If you are interested this is a great webcam.

http://tembe.co.za/web-cam/

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

06/10/2015 Another grey day. We went to scrabble this afternoon.

Maximum temperature 20C, minimum 13C. 52 km/h SW winds. 2mm rain.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

09/12/14 Busy sort of day, we moved wood in the chilly frost this morning, scrabble later, then an aperitif with our scrabble friend and a late dinner cooked by Nigel.

Maximum temperature 4C but the car was reading only 0C!! 3 mm rain yesterday.

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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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