Welcome and Benvenuti to all my Lovely Followers around the World,
Needless to say, I hope you are all doing well, we are OK here and actually enjoying life.
However, both my man and I, who are normally avid readers, have not been able to concentrate on a book for weeks! Given so much quiet time, this is something I’m finding difficult to grasp. I have also been trying to get back into my fourth novel, as my heroine Joanna Wilde, is currently left suspended in Havana, waiting on my instructions!
So yesterday I re-visited a short story, which I started writing some years ago. It’s supposed to be a thriller where the people and animals in a nearby Italian town, disappear completely without trace and the panic this creates for outsiders. So I get into chapter two and I start seeing lizards everywhere and in particular a green and yellow one, which starts speaking to my main character, turning the whole thing into a comedy! Well, this will not do. My man hates the idea so I have ditched that project for the time being too! Lizard foto euroland.com
Now, one exciting thing happened a couple of days ago; my James Lakeland clothes order arrived, hurrah. Well, everything fitted, despite the extra weight around my middle! So, I have my new charcoal grey outfit for the concert in June. Now we have to wait to see if the concert can still take place……. I’ll let you know one way or another in May. Now I am waiting for the arrival of my new passport, but that’s another story.
Back in our lovely garden my man found a little Redstart fledgling, which had obviously had an aborted first flight. It was standing exactly on the spot where we like to sit with our aperitifvo, so being all heart we stayed in to give the parents a chance to feed it and encourage it to fly again. We have had a great number of Redstarts this year, oh and the first cuckoo is now here in one of our trees. We’ve not spotted it yet, but then they are difficult to see. The fledgling had gone in the morning, thank heavens.
One sad thing to tell you, our big and normally beautiful Ash Tree is in trouble. Only a quarter of the tree is in leaf, the rest looks dry and quite frankly dead. It really needs an experienced tree surgeon to sort it out, but not during lockdown. My man has had to move our park bench under the European Oak to get the shade needed for viewing the outside world. If you know anything about Ash Trees, do let me know. But hurrah, our English climbing Rose is in full bloom and there are masses of buds too! And, the perfume is to die for, so that’s good news.
Anyway, last night we enjoyed a two hour drinks party on Skype with our good English Friends who live in Surrey, UK. There was no shortage of crazy hats and weird glasses on display. He knows who I am talking about. I apologise for the terrible ‘Devon’ stories, that did not come over so well as they did last time I told them. You know, ‘I wouldn’t start from here, if I were you” and the ‘Wood Splitting Axe’. Anyway, it was good to speak and have a laugh with you guys. Stay safe.
Well, I think that’s it for now. Time to think about aperitivi. It’s still nice and warm in the garden, so let’s go for it.
Have a good week, everything will be OK soon.
Salute June xx
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