- or are they cormorants? The debate rages, especially as there are now FIVE. Saw two of them gliding under the water and breaking the surface looking like shiny machines...
- continuing where www.tilling-sur-aude.blogspot.com left off, with gossip and updates from a small French town
January 31, 2023
Shags by the river-
January 29, 2023
Blue skies back
We lunched at St Julia de Bec at the behest of the Rushtons. Clare and John did us proud: prawn salad, roast chicken with trimmings of delight. (note to self; fennel, parmesan, onion, cream puree) Then apple flowers with apricot and a hint of rose water.
Spring is creeping in, little birds bopping and whopping it up in the garden, chiefly tits, finches and nuthatches. Still got patches of snow up there but melting now -
Big sloppy thank-you's to Clare and John - feel like we're thawing out at last :)
January 28, 2023
Undeterred...
January 24, 2023
Literate 'r' us
January 21, 2023
Cold and colder
January 19, 2023
Good news-
January 15, 2023
Fighting back
Good news is that Ole-Bendik is out of intensive care and is querulous in cardiology; bad is that Hilary was taken in by ambulance last night.
AND the market is threadbare, those stallholders that turned up are even now packing up to go home.
Here's a view from the riverbed yesterday evening, the water being so low its possible to walk where no human foot has been for some many years.
January 13, 2023
Exercise
Lovely.
Back cocooning now.
January 11, 2023
January 8, 2023
Sunday in Esperaza
Stood under the panel in the square to find out what's going on - excitement looming -
January 7, 2023
bibliotechery__
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Anyone out there in touch with God? If so, please have a word re; Ole-Bendik, who is in intensive care. Best place for him, of course, but we want him back intact. Please.
January 4, 2023
excess sociability in 2023
Afterwards Regina, Dougie and Marlon came to tea - what a treat - and I was too overcome to take photos. The three of them were on gloriously spiffing form.
Thence to Tim and Gracies party where I failed to photograph our hosts; no idea why not. But look! Here's Kate Coughlan, hardly ever spotted since her removal to a village elsewhere. Kates immune system is on holiday so she kept her mask on - missed snapping Dermot and many other friends, really need to pay more attention (but was having fun.)***Im thinking of reading Wittgenstein's Notebooks and Jim recommends doing this with at least one other which will help make them comprehensible. Anyone interested in a reading group?
January 3, 2023
FIrst footers...
January 1, 2023
Happy New Year
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