Maximum temperature today 16C, minimum 6C. 4mm rain measured this morning; as I type this we are having a mixture of more rain plus some hail. 31km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 77 km/h. It is very windy outside!
The tiny church down the road from us at Fleurignac has just had a new/restored bell put in after months of being without it. Apparently, it had a crack.
Around the corner from the church is this old Lavoir.
Our local village of Vitrac, the local well...
as above, the Mairie and the local war memorial...
The Mairie from another angle.
Our last game of French scrabble at Vitrac where this word gave me a winning streak. Yes, it is in the French scrabble dictionary!!
Out for a drive near Xambes - grape vines...
The town of Xambes - too many wind turbines...
You can see here just how close they are to the town!! Thank goodness we did not buy a house near here!
A bee in the garden...
as above...
and a bumble bee.
Even a few lizards came out of hibernation for several days before the weather turned cooler again.
Last week we took a trip to the recycling centre here in the Charente. It was extremely interesting, but because there was lots of info to go with it, which I do not put on the diary, I have put the post on my other blog HERE.
I have updated my bird blog HERE.
