great place to start building a nest…..NOT

Sunflowers are all around us now and these are my most gigantic and funny. I plant five in the same area every year one for each of the pearse family and they always do well. Mike was walking through the back yard and had to call me out to look at these fabulous plants peering over the hedge. Well done Pearse family you “done good” again this year and there is one plant for each of you. I will actually harvest the seeds for Mike’s bird fat ball bonanza in the winter.

Every week or so we buy yesterdays bread for the ducks and chickens and there is nothing better than standing by the pond chucking bread at the swan. HOSS has learnt that by sitting still and acting like an angle he can get some of the action and joins in the feed frenzy.  We used to get boxes and boxes or croissant and pain chocolate with the animal bread from Leclerc but all that has stopped and I expect the staff are getting first pickings and our cheap breakfasts have come to an abrupt end, only goes to show that you cannot rely on a good thing and you end up having to go out and look for a new good thing at some stage.

We have had a jolly week so far with Ron and Pauline here on their way back to the UK from their three month camper trip and there has been lots of talking and catching up . We were all sailors in Port Solent and can all talk a good sailing epic which kept us entertained for a couple of days. This took our minds off the mobile home electric issues but today we were back to the problem of searching for the right solution to getting these Vans up and running.  Tonight we had our digger man and his family over for supper. Ami made a creation cake for my mate Ann’s birthday tomorrow and we had a wonderful evening with this young family over a bowl of spaghetti meat balls. This little poppet kept me entertained just because she is a little poppet

The storks have taken to roosting on the electric pylons over the field and it is starting to worry us. The fear that they might sit on the wrong bit and then kiss…Frazzled stork is not exciting me at this moment. But what a sight, clacking to one another and hopefully deciding that this is NOT such a great place to start building a nest…..