At last consistently hot days have arrived at La Chaise! I can stop annoying everyone with my saying ‘as a retired farmer, I am allowed to say we need a little rain…’ The temperatures for the last few days have consistently passed 30 C… This was written in July.
This is a new friend – probably came in from the rain – no I don’t know his name.
As August began it started to behave like September or March – unstable temperatures and unpredictable rain. The months seem to have unfixed their habitual characteristics – April thought it was May, for example. I still do not accept that a shower can be ‘sweet’ except in the middle of a very hot month.
The death of the Camelia
The idea for wetting the window shutters and verandah covering came from a very ancient picture of my Grandmother’s house in Indonesia. A small boy was letting down a thin cane blind over the window, the next foto shows him watering it…
No wonder SOGEDO – loves me…. it is my ‘utility’ whose bills are so very useful for proving something to legal minds – what and why I do not know.