Travels!!!

Starting to get excited…only 43 days before I set off on my travels again.  Going to quite a few places so I keep packing and repacking suitable apparel,  and then I need something and it is packed.  I suppose this is a reaction to my Mother’s packing which although planned always seemed to be left to the very last moment.  I am going to visit both my brothers and meeting up with Canadian great nieces and nephews who were cute little ankle biters last time I saw them and now are sophisticated creatures whose lifestyles I am getting a glimmer of by following their posts on Facebook……… ( Hi kids, don’t drop me as a FB friend  when you read this!!!).  I am also looking forward to meeting my “new” – must be 20 years by now – sister-in law. in France. 
This is really going to be a holiday of contrasts from a few days in New York to the wild west coast of Ireland and the peace of the Gascony countryside where my brother runs Gascony Painting Holidays
Nearly everyone who hears I am going away asks who I am going with and then I get a rather shocked response when I say I am travelling alone….come on guys I am not on day release from the old folks home. But if you want to tag along and hold my hand you are more than welcome.

Figs and Ferals




To your right some delicious figs

..the critters below are flying foxes (often wrongly named "fruit bats" for obvious reasons)


 tonight I have both fruit and foxes in my garden.


come the dawn I will have few of the former and none of the latter............


                                               
'nuff  said.....