It’s the little things…..
May 9, 2011
A beautiful, almost cloudless sky, 29 degrees in early May, lizards basking on the wall hoopoes, blackcaps (they make an awful lot of noise for something so small!) and cuckoos by day, nightingales (who also make an awful lot of noise) by night; crickets chirruping away 24 hours, the drone of dozens of bees in the cotoneaster… bliss.
Add to that a visit to the dentist. Ours is just about an hours’ drive away – this is obviously not the nearest but one recommended to us some time ago and according to Jon, he’s very good (I’ve not had the need yet, or at least let’s say I’ve been putting it off). The drive is through the most stunning Lot and Dordogne countryside and we get to see variety of different plants and wildlife on the way. Acacia trees in full bloom, swaying gently in the breeze and rustling, some walnut trees are far more advanced than others – must be a different variety and poppies – fields and fields of them like carpets of scarlet expecting a royal visit any day. Hovering eagles and buzzards and red kites.
Hayfields have been cut and we even saw combine harvesters not so very far from here. Villages too are swathed in colour, hanging baskets with tumbling petunias, lobelia and gypsophilia, roses clambering over walls and gateposts.
Such eye candy make a trip to the dentist a real pleasure.
