High summer in the village. Not a soul about apart from the residents of The Rickety Old Farmhouse, the Belgian Lady and The Old Farmer. The Anger Management Man sets off at crack of dawn to his cottage near the sea. He winds down his window and tells us he'll be back in mid-August. ' I'm setting off early to avoid the traffic ' he adds with a tone of voice that hints this is something we might never think of doing. The German Billionaires Builder headed away for a month on Saturday. You think they might have staggered their holidays.
Team Great Britain beat the USA in the Olympic Rugby Sevens. They were down 21 points and then managed to come back . Angus tells Sophie all about the fast and furious game but she displays studied indifference. There are grass verges to be explored. We wave at a couple of farmers in their white vans then head off from the storm drain and head across country.Some of the paths through the sunflower fields have turned into canyons. The taller plants now reaching seven or eight feet into the sky. Wayward sunflowers are reclaiming the boundary gaps between the fields.
Sophie leads the way into this area of dark shadows and intriguing rustlings. I think the hares must spend their days hidden in here. Sophie darts in and out of the stalks but makes sure I'm close. A girl can never be too careful when there are 'rustlings' about. Prudent bravery is her motto.
After a lengthy drink from the waterfall and a hurried sprint past the cow fields it's time to head off for some curly croissant ends . Today a somewhat lacklustre 6.5/10. There is also a mignardise that the PONette thinks warrants a score of 20/10. Her tail waves at hyper-speed .
4 comments:
Presumably neither German Billionaire nor Anger Management Man would want to leave the field open to their adversary to influence village opinion.
It seems that Sophie is always smiling these days. The hotel in Mallorca looks nice but I'm still boycotting anything that is "curated."
Thank you for the sunflower photos! Just what I needed to see on a winters day in NZ. Hoping to see gold tonight for NZ who are in the Sevens final 9pm our time. Enjoy the game.
Any 'rustlings' in our garden are put down to the pesky mama cat and kittens, and immediately given chase! Not fast enough to catch up with them, you understand, but (hopefully) enough to frighten them off! Not a strategy that has proved successful so far.
The hotel in Mallorca looks very swish, but gives the feel that parts of it might be a reformed factory building. Not that I'm a beach person, but it's too far for even a glimpse the sea - something most people visit the island for. From the style of building I, personally, feel it would look better in the desert! A nice idea in the wrong location?
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