30th July 2023...bug with replicator ambition!

This little bug we see some years it's called a Masked Hunter...the immature bug covers itself in sand or dust particles...looks really weird!

(Ask AJ about the replicator reference)

My photo.

 Professional photos 

Immature naked

Adult

29th July 2023...Cardinal butterfly... progress on ceiling.

28th July 2023... swallowtail on lavender.

27th July 2023...Garden produce, strange skies.

Not a fire, but the sun catching low cloud behind the house.

Few storms around but, none close enough to give us rain.

26th July 2023... insulation of the walls too.

This is where the wardrobe was, and will probably be again...

The masked man.

Getting there....

22nd July 2023...pictures from our balcony, weekend of the party!

A narrow waisted wasp is filling our gutter with bits of straw... bizarre to see bits of straw/grass up to 10cm long, flying through the air, so I had to investigate!

Wisteria blooming again!

Carpark finished just in time for Julie and Clementine's party....lots of young noisy people, only one weekend, so it's fine...even some of the music 🎶🎶🎶 was ok..😁

21st July 2023... insulation update

21st July 2023...King Charlie and the garden flowers

King Charlie, well he thinks so!

Crepe myrtle 

Kiwi going mad...

Crepe myrtle (largerstrontum?)

Lavander and it's inhabitants 

More

Trumpet of Jericho 

More

19th July 2023... patching up the ceiling & garden spider

Dave loves using plaster of Paris.... I can tell by the colourful language!

An enormous garden spider 

on a football sized pumpkin

19th July 2023...soil is piled up at the ex entrance.

New entrance completed, now old one (opposite us) is filled in.

Tipping sideways truck....cool !

New parking 🅿️ finished....

 Dave giving some scale

In autumn we will plant this with shrubs etc...

18th July 2023...more leveling/rolling of the parking. With video!!🤞

More hardcore

More leveling

More rolling

https://youtu.be/UUEV724Pjlg

Turn the sound on for this!

17th July 2023...New form of transport!

Due to my sciatica, I need to sit often, around the house/garden is fine....but I'm fed up with sitting on supermarket floors😱...so I bought this🛒 after trying out a friend's and finding it very helpful. It also means I get exercise, which I don't in the wheelchair.

I am very pleased with it, unfortunately the picture didn't capture this!!😳😁🤣😂🤣

15th July 2023 ...Some Wildlife

Enormous cricket!

The begonia Jane gave me had to be repotted and moved as it wasn't doing well...drying out too quickly in the wind...so I hope she likes her new place.

15th July 2023 ...New car park progress...

Various angles of the new flat surface.

Charlie investigates!

Discussion group on where to put a new entrance, and in autumn how to plant up the space🌲🌹

13th July 2023... The carpark is made bigger!

We were told the work would being at 7am Monday 10th.......the mairie cut the grass Tuesday morning at 7am.

Then finally the digger turned up around 8am and started leveling enlarging and reshaping the parking.

Dave took this photo just after they started

Our road is on the right hand side .

After day one....not sure if it's finished yet?