24th-31st July 2025...Glasses, mushrooms, stuff

These are 4 tumblers that Dave has inherited.

They were probably his grandparents wedding present over 100 years ago! 

Hand blown and beautifully arched......so delicate.

The boys are glad to see us!

Karl brings mushrooms which tun out to be Ceps...

Unfortunately the flies got there first 😵‍💫

Lagerstroemia

Best it's ever been this year..

Nice service James 🥰

An odd little creature in the bathroom, think it's a baby stick insect....no wings

End of July....

23rd July 2025...going Home

Flight from Bristol to Béziers 

Approaching Béziers 

Home 🏠 ❤️

20th July 2025...Family Sunday Lunch at the Salt house Clevedon.

A family Sunday lunch, courtesy of John.

Pauline, Jane, Gareth, Ann, Dave, Jane (me!)

19th July 2025...Nytech, Chew Magna

1979, I got a job working for a company called Nytech in Chew Magna. Where I met a very charming, serious young man.

Who much later in 2008, I married, in France.

I took this picture of the Nytech building, as we whooshed passed, much like he whooshed passed me in 1979.

Whoosh.whoosh! 🥰

18th July 2025...piebald blackbird and Dave suited.

In Mike and Sarah's garden, they have this beautiful bird as a regular visitor, a piebald blackbird...

Later at the wake.

17th July 2025...Sarah making kimchi

16th July 2025...We fly back to UK for John's funeral.

Leaving France. 

Approaching Bristol 

We get to use the new "bridge" at Bristol airport, which opened this morning!

13th July 2025.... mushroom, Chicken of the woods.

Ever since we moved here, we've been keen on hunting the mushrooms....

This particular one eluded us for ever!

We found it in very old examples, and even tried to eat those, 😂.

This one was found by Karl, not up a tree, but growing on the forest floor... probably on an old tree stump.

At last I get my hands on,

"Chicken of the Woods."

As we were just about to leave door UK this was frozen.

12th July 2025...RAIN and Chicken of the woods!

At last a good drop of the wet stuff💦💦💦💦

A few days later...

Karl finds this beautiful chicken of the woods mushroom....

Unfortunately had to freeze it as we are now off to UK for a week.

8th to 11th July 2025...insects

A Rosalia alpine beetle.

Scarce Swallowtail

Carpenter bee

Broad-bordered bee hawk moth