PhotoDiary: Saint-Vincent

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Showing posts with label Saint-Vincent. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2016

28/03/2016 More on the last walk, wet, grey, horrible and very windy here today!

Maximum temperature 14C, minimum 7C. 78 km/h S wind. 6mm rain measured this morning.

Cowslips are everywhere at the moment.

Lots of hay but the cattle were elsewhere!

Unknown fly on a hawthorn flower.

Dandelions as far as the eye can see!

A private road through the woods.

Le Rivaillon

Siesta time.

Farm equipment.

Derelict.

The dam at the back of the above,

Soft walking :-)

This dam is generally just a puddle but it has been overflowing now for months.

Ploughing going on all over. Top left the tractor is still at it.

The bottom two are newly ploughed and have been pastures ever since we have been here. Wonder where all the cows have gone.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

23/03/2016 A few photos from the garden today and the remainder from Monday's walk.

Maximum temperature 15C, minimum 0C. 38 km/h cold wind. Dry.

Celandine with a bee-fly of Bombylius species.

Common Lizard, sure this is the same lizard as it is in the same place again.

Camellia.

The hyacinth is still looking good.

Flower of salad rocket plant also known as arugula. Eruca sativa.

Buds of white bells, the blue bells are always later.

Saint-Vincent. This place is now a business, but 60 odd years ago it was an orphanage....

as above. One of my followers lived here as a child which is how I know

A forlorn empty house at Saint-Vincent....

and a nearby pond.

Fields of lupins in the front and wheat beyond.

Cowslips at the roadside.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

22/03/2016 A trip to the clinic for Nigel's shoulder and a few more photos from yesterday's walk.

Maximum temperature 14C, minimum 0C. 46 km/h NE very icy wind. Dry.

An early Great Tit at the window asking for food!

Driving over La Charente river. (I was passenger!)

A roundabout in Soyaux, Angouleme with a bit of history preserved in the centre.

The clinic.

Yesterday's walk continued - farmyard at La Peyrelle....

as above....

and the Lavoir. Not the best we have seen! Generally they have a roof and are well preserved.

The quiet country road.

Saint-Vincent, I think this is a small dam.

Last years maize. The memorial can be seen again as yesterday's photo top left.

A few photos still left from yesterday's walk so...... maybe tomorrow.

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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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