Short of time!

I am having a difficult time keeping up with Life in the Charente at present! Having just returned from 3 weeks holiday in Spain and Portugal, I have not got the time for lots of research which most of my posts need. Nigel is great at helping me, but there is so much to do in the garden, we are both very busy.  I am, though, doing my best to keep up the daily photodiary and adding a few holiday photos to each day, so if you are interested, please take a look at it HERE.  Winter should be a good time for me to catch up once again, but if I have time I will pop in a few posts before that.  As Arnie S once said,I will be back :-)

A taste of our holiday photos - the way to travel in Seville, Spain.

A new blog for France - friends just making the move take a look Here.

What you will see when I return to posting again at the end of June (I hope!),

What with all the post-holiday effects and so much to do on our return home, I will not be blogging regularly for a while yet!   We are extra busy catching up with house and garden, especially with the fruit trees, which are heavy with fruit, so they are very time consuming. Added to that, we have visitors coming!  I  posted my daily diary here by mistake the other day, but despite removing it fairly quickly and putting it in the correct place, there were a number of comments, and then emails from people who could not see the post. Sorry, but it is now at its proper place at http://photodiarydps.blogspot.com.  I have also moved the comments there as well.   The other reason for holding back is because I do not currently have the time to properly visit all your blogs and I have sooooooo many photos to edit!!!

Here is a small photographic taster, from our travels outside the Charente, with much more when I get back to normal:-)

A visit to Carcassonne. A historic fortified French town in the Aude department,  not  far from the Mediterranean.

A trip to Barcelona in Spain.

Part of our sumptuous stateroom on the cruise ship Liberty of the Seas.

The gymnasium on the ship.

A visit to Monaco, just before the Formula 1 GP took place

The Sphinx room on board ship.

Mount Vesuvius, just outside Naples

Snow on the Pyrenees - a rare sight in May, we are told!

Off to the UK!

'Visiting' both our families at Haycombe Cemetery near Bath

A visit to my grandparent's old house at Batheaston.  Sadly the two garages have been built in front of it, so it was impossible to see it properly!

Back home in the Charente, a blackbird takes a bath.

The bees are busy

as are the butterflies. This is "Small tortoiseshell" Aglais urticae