Noisette
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Flushed with success over the kite photo, I'm just going to try my luck again, to see whether it still
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Curiouser and curiouser.....they're only the right way up if I drag and drop.....🤔
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There you go, menthe 🙂 It swoops and sways a lot better when it's streamers aren't wrapped around the pole!
Amazingly, the photo loaded the right way up 😁
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When they get used to the DVDs, how about a miniature version of the raptor kites used in the fields to deter pigeons? They're kites on the end of a bendy stick which swoop and sway in the breeze.
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8 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Well, we have the Saints de Glace which is a cold spell in late April to sometime in the first week of May so big drop in temperature and some frosts. But the Gods of Weather seem about to give us warm southerly breezes. Finally I sill be able to finish getting thengarden into some sort of shape; there are queues of plants waiting to go in and they are beginning to mutter.
Plus I have grandson for a week so will have to go out more than usual.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_de_glace I always understood from neighbours that it's just three days in May? Can't remember it ever happening here, though. I've always gambled on dismantling the temporary 'conservatory' in March and never had a problem until this year 🙄
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25 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
or maybe they are just drought stricken. I've lost a cherry and a mulberry over the last 12 months.
I think it's the extremes that do for most plants here. There are very few that will withstand soggy soil all winter and then the heat and drought of most summers.
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44 minutes ago, Harnser said:
Replying to my own post here:-
Observing some signs of the variance of plant growth in our own garden, the fact that the variegated privet hedge some 25 metres long along the road boundary of our property lost it's leaves totally this last winter and was still bare in mid March, the first time this has happened since we arrived in 2009, no sign of any infection etc, and a large flowering cherry putting out the worst show of blossom again since 2009, leads me to think that the global boiling brigade are talking up their agenda, rather than telling it like it is.
Now be fair, Harnser! There were at least three days in early April when we got all excited and braved the pool. The water was 20C. So there you have it....the planet's totally doomed 😁
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I tried Dave's suggestion of saving a photo upside down, then posting it, but it stayed upside down 🤨 I've found an (old) explanation of why it happens on Google, but no solution yet...
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Have pity....it's a bit early in the morning for looking at upside-down photos 😁 Perhaps after a coffee.....😂
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Could some kind person explain why the photos I attempted to post all appear upside down? Uploaded from 'Images' on an Asus laptop running Win11....I've had problems with them uploading on their sides, elsewhere, but this is a new variant 😂 No option for whizzing them around in a drop-down menu, either....TIA
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Is it me or is this the coldest, wettest spring for at least 15 years? How are your gardens doing?
From what I can see of mine from the windows, the early flowers are certainly lasting longer due to the low temperatures, and the paper wasps are getting knocked back a bit, but that's it for the silver linings 😁
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My chickens certainly are and I go with the flow. We base our days on sunrise and sunset 🙂
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Um..could a mod 'improve' the title? 🙂
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Ooooh...double bluff? 🤔
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Are you declining to take part in the 'mea culpa', 'we're all doomed', ecolo hysteria, Harnser? 😁 How refreshing! I wish I had your ability to come up with trenchant counter-arguments backed up by facts. Seriously.
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On 16/02/2024 at 08:57, Lehaut said:
Black catting, good news for those who want to move to Scotland
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-68119951
Pfffff....they won't be stripping off when the AMOC switches off 🤣
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It's normal for here. There are days even in January when the sun shines, the temps rise, it feels like spring and then everything evens out again. What is guaranteed is that when the tulips are flowering, we have a spell of hot sunshine and the show is quickly over 😁 Don't worry, ALBF, it's going to cool down again over the weekend and next week....
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Thing is.....most people who end up in their 'right place' don't then spend much (if any) time on expat forums or expat FB groups. I've yet to figure out why I do 🤣 There must be an infinitesimal part of the psyche that just can't let go.....
Originally the forums were a marvellous resource for finding one's way around, avoiding pitfalls and sharing experiences with like-minded souls in the same situation. Norman (bless him) is carrying on that tradition 🙂
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On 10/02/2024 at 10:31, alittlebitfrench said:
There must be some reason why I get on more/have the same sort of thinking with the French than say the British. In fact, I could apply that to most European nationalities. Do you know what I mean ?
I don’t mean that in a....’ooh I’m sooo French’ or ‘I’m so European’….sort of way.
So what is it ? I am sure I am not the only one who feels that way.
Yes I know what you mean, Yes I believe you, Haven't the faintest idea why and No, you're not the only one 😁
It certainly didn't come from my family as grandparents were mildly hostile and parents didn't care one way or the other. It was simply the case that from the first time we set foot in France, it was right. Luckily it still is 🙂
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4 minutes ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Ooh hang on a minute.
Nos went to Guadelope.😀
I am guessing its male…
https://www.oiseaux-birds.com/fiche-colibri-madere.html
It is a sub specious of a hummingbird.
Yes, judging by the colouring it was a male. It had a beautiful deep red throat but couldn't capture that on a photo 🙂
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1 hour ago, menthe said:
Bravo! Very nice and very difficult, I imagine.
Thanks, menthe. That's why it took me two weeks to get a halfway decent photo....they're soo quick!
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Behave yourself! 🤣 On the birdie theme, after two weeks I finally managed to capture a colibri (hummingbird) in the gîte garden.
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13 hours ago, cajal said:
The snowdrops and crocus/croci 💐are in full bloom in the garden. Yesterday I saw a second butterfly 🦋 of the year and some bees 🐝. Unfortunately, there isn't any food available for them yet.
I found a big bumblebee on my snowdrops yesterday and the Winter honeysuckle Lonicera fragrantissima, Witch Hazel, Sarcoccoca and Hellebores are providing some flowers 🙂
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Well for a start, you'd deduct the capital from the previous house sale. Mrs ALBF is in banking, isn't she? I'm sure she'll be able to house ALBF in the manner to which he's become accustomed 😁
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Damn! If I'd known that they were going to blockade the Antilles I'd have been off like a shot on the microtractor 🤣
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The first blooms are soooo exciting, before blackspot, rain and burning sun take their toll 😁