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Friday, August 11, 2017

11/08/2017 A walk to the next hamlet and what I saw along the way.

Maximum temperature 22C, minimum 12C. 9 km/h NW wind with 28 km/h gusts. 15 mm rain measured.

The first thing I see as I leave the house and walk around the corner is our neighbour's barn.

I just love these chicory flowers that are everywhere at the moment.

Clover flowers.

Bladder campion or maidenstears (Silene vulgaris).

Daisy with a fly.

Gatekeeper butterfly, female.

Gatekeeper butterfly, male.

Raspberries.

A rose bud peeking through a fence.

Rose hips.

It this a fungus growing on a rose plant?

Cuckoo Pint seeds. A member of the Arum family and poisonous.

Thistle....

and another thistle with a bumble bee.

Large Yellow Rest Harrow

Wisteria.

For those that might be interested, I have started my blog on our South African holiday earlier this year.

Friday, June 30, 2017

30/06/2017 Still raining, a quick walk around the garden between showers.

Maximum temperature 17C minimum 11C. 25 km/h NW chilly winds, 35 km/h gusts. 20 mm rain measured this morning and it has been raining on and off all day again.

Blue Tit. (Cyanistes caeruleus)

Young acorns being blown to the ground in the winds...

and the leaves from the oak.

Hydrangea.

Courgette flower.

Echeveria.

Large Yellow Rest Harrow - weeds in the lawn but pretty!!

Granny-smith apple.

The only insect that I saw out was the Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) ....

as above.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

13/06/2017 Just in the garden again!

Maximum temperature 29C, minimum 12C. 13 kmh SE wind. Dry, but rain forecast for later. Lots of thunder around.

Large yellow rest harrow (I think).

Meadow brown (Maniola jurtina)

Ladybird pupa...

and another one.

We seem to be over run with the Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)...

As above.

Rosemary beetle (Chrysolina americana)

Wasp.

The rose is still looking fabulous.

Vinca - we also have one with a variegated leaf but the flowers are over on it.

Tomato flowers.

Potato plants in flower.

Next doors pumpkin plants, ours are a few weeks behind these, I planted late!

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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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