Le Capt and I went to Rennes les Bains for a swim after the days graft - between 4 and 7pm the price is 2.50 euros and the pool is 33 degrees and sparsely attended. Bliss! We floated about a bit and wandered down river afterwards, a great pleasure though the weather could be better.
Then on to Annie and Petes for dinner - here they are flanking Theo who is perfecting his sneer. Nice one Theo!!
Sylvie was there too but not in shot -alas -
Below is Annie looking glam... and below that is the last visitor of the day, a whopping great Deaths'- Head Hawks Moth that decided to wake Bob up in the middle of the night.
He is not a moth lover at the best of times and this thing was like a
large bat - only noisier. Never seen one in the flesh before ( lifted
this image from the net, it wasn't taken by me -) It had an
astonishingly perfect little whitesilver skull tattooed on its head as
if stenciled in tippex, so exquisite that I assumed I was hallucinating.
Caught it in the butterfly net we keep for getting bees out and was
hoping it would be around in the garden this morning but so far no sign
of it.
Perhaps I can have another night of running naked round the house with a butterfly net, frightening the dog... country life, eh.
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