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Sunday, June 24, 2018

24/06/2018 Home and the garden.

Maximum temperature today 26C, minimum 14C. Dry; 17 km/h North Easterly chilly winds with up to 40 km/h gusts.

A couple of days back the bees took a liking to our roof, it seems that they have now moved in. Unfortunately, the roof is quite new and not easily moved, so not sure how the Bee man is going to move them. Could be an expensive exercise!!

Bumblebee.

Bud of the Echeveria cactus.

Agapanthus.

Day Lily.

A European hornet came to visit us in the house, these are our ceiling beams! (Vespa crabro)

Hydrangea.

Kalanchoe.

Common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis)

as above

Meadow brown (Maniola jurtina).

Potato flowers.

Red Robin shrub.

Climbing rose.

Small white (Pieris rapae), bee and lavender.

Mrs House sparrow. (Passer domesticus)

Wasp in the greenhouse.

N.B. My bird blog is updated HERE

Part 13 of the birds seen in Africa.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

13/06/2015 Busy day and not many photos.

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 11C. !4 km/h E wind. 3 mm rain.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

13/02/2013 A trip to Chasseneuil

Maximum Temperature 7C and a lot of mist around.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

23/01/2013 La Rochefoucauld Chateau and more birds

Another 8mm of rain this morning and it has drizzled on and off most of the day.

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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