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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

18/10/2017 Just around the garden

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 15C. 8 km/h SE winds, 28 km/h gusts. Dry so far but rain forecast for later.

Speckled wood ( Pararge aegeria)

Our garden bench.

Zinnia.

Our neighbours Sumac tree. Great colours, but we spend our life killing all the young trees that come up all over our lawn!!!!! Grrrrrr.

Christmas cactus.

The only photogenic bird around today!! Checking the sky here for maybe sparrow hawks...

taking a drink...

but preferring the stone ashtray to take a bath...

as above...

That feels better 😉

For those following our South African holiday, Part 6 is now online HERE

Sunday, November 13, 2016

13/11/2016 Raindrops on.........

Maximum temperature 14C, minimum 7C. 30 km/h NE wind. 4mm of rain measured this morning.

Crocus...

Fig trees...

Choisya ternata,...

Fir....

Apples...

Calendula....

as above...

Pampas...

Cotoneaster...

Ginkgo biloba leaf.

Returning to the window sill is the Great Tit...

as above...

as above.

The neighbours Sumac tree. Very pretty, but wish he would keep the roots on his side of the fence!! They are very invasive!

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.

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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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