Les poissons en France

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Omnibus Edition

The clue is in the title. It means we haven't been doing anything "interesting" but are concious that we haven't reported in lately.

We now have two ol' boys in the household with heart trouble. We knew Yoda had a heart murmur but as he was coughing a lot (reminiscent of John before his heart problem was diagnosed) we took him to the vet. He's now on medication for the rest of his life although his condition is not too bad. Consequently the old boys go off for a medicinal walk every morning. However in the last couple of days Yoda has decided that he does not need to walk as far as John and he puts all four feet on the ground and refuses to go any further. Us girls (Cleo, Diana and me) are fine.

The "little" plants are alive but I cannot say they are romping away. It is a little demoralising to see geraniums coming into the shops in full flower. In France most plants are sold in flower. Still we will have to persevere and I'll let you know when I plant them out (in September??)

We bought a new car a couple of weeks ago, you will recall our mechanical problems on the return journey from the UK. However John has a problem .... no not with the car but the pigeons that roost on it at night. He is currently in that phase when you have a new car that you have to look after it ( I am confident it will pass, it always has before). Today he is on mark nine of his anti-pigeon strategy, a  series of strings  suspended over the car from the house to the trees with bits of string hanging down.
 He's also fitted a plastic bag over the wing mirror where one bird sits and poos.  Watch this space.
I hesitate to mention the weather in view of the awful situation in the UK at present but our weather is very unsettled and we just dont seem to be able to make any headway in the garden. Whatever the weather, it is not right for us gardeners.

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