Cold, cold nights and mornings, heated by decent sun in the afternoons - that's the pattern of winter so far, anyway. Snapped this of the frost on the houses across the river from the Cafe du Pont yesterday morning.
All tickety-boo here. Ate with Mike and Hilary at the Authentique last night and they agreed its transformed itself into a decent little restaurant.
Several friends have emailed that the big things I posted recently are in fact nests of the Asian Hornet (nids de frelons asiatiques) - so I'm off to report them to the mayor. The pompiers will remove them.
There are a lot of hornets in town and they have been attacking our hive for years though the bees are most impressive as learners. When the hornets first turned up they picked the bees off easily; they hover over the entrance and drop onto a bee, killing it and flying off with the body. Gradually the bees changed their behavior and exited and entered the hive in clumps and fast, so they were difficult to pick off. They also smear the entrance with their sticky stuff and cluster over it in a wall of beeness, just shimmering. Guessing this is to stop the big boys moving in. Heroic critters, bees.
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