29th August 2025.....Chicken of the woods mushroom.

Karl found this and kindly brought it down for us.

It weighed 1kg and was mostly all edible.

Frozen most of it.

Our first miniscule sweet potato.

🤣😂🤣

Hopefully the others will grow more, now we're having some rain.💦

25th August 2025.....apples

A few of the many apples from our Cox's Sunset tree....

22nd August 2025...My family

My family came for a short visit, it was so good to see them.

Dave, Me , Tom, Karine and Elee.

Taken at Au Bureau in the polygone Béziers.

Elle and Me on the terrace.

This was also the day of the crematorium for Almuth RIP.

17th August 2025... Sunrise

This was the sun at 7.30am...this is probably smoke and sand from Spain and Portugal fires, and Sahara sand from the wind...it was very weird.......

16th August 2025...RIP Almuth.

We lost a good friend today, she was just 64.

She had lung cancer for over a year, with COPD.

Then just 4 weeks ago she had an MRI and they discovered it had spread to her brain and liver.

I have no recent pictures, but these were her passport photos at 15, 23 and 25.

RIP .

14-15 August 2025...Making PIE!

To give it it's correct title.

Mediterranean vegetable koubilac.

We call it PIE!

All the veg is in season right now....so with the temperature reaching into the 30s outside.... I made Pie.

10-12 August 2025.......Too Hot!

The only place to be, under the tunnel.

9th August 2025... Diabetic nightmare, apple tree, sun oven cooking.

With my new "closed loop" system, my diabetes control has been fine.

This day the new sensor malfunctioned for several hours 😱😱😱😱

The line in the green at the bottom, should be level.😆😀🤔🤔

Charlie taking a nap with a stone pillow.

Cox's Sunset are doing well this year.

We discovered that the tree had worked loose in the wind, so Dave built it a good strong framework.

A thread waisted wasp, non stinging and fascinating to watch her work.

Sun oven cooking, Dave's favourite dish, aubergine, mozzarella, tomato and onion.

Cooked for free!

7th August 2025....flowers and praying mantis

Indian lilac, best it's ever been 😀

Praying mantis, not liking being watered!

5th August 2025....sunrise and planets , furniture

We love this furniture, but it's not comfortable unless you have a lot of cushions!

We have tried all sorts of refurbishment places and none of them will touch this Stressless from 20 years ago!

Something to do with internal spring mechanism?

It's replacement in 2 months 

Same colour as we have but with electric (battery) extending foot rest.

2 chairs....

Very early in the morning,

If you zoom in you will see the two planets...Venus and Jupiter (I think 🤔)

3rd August 2025...garden 🏡

Goji berries have recovered from the heat blast in June and are in full leaf and flower now. 🌺 🙏

Apples so far....

1st August 2025......