14 Juillet National day.

 Hello Friends!

This long weekend will be our”Bastille day” our National day. I will be off my blog because of my son’s family arrival from Dubai, the preparations I have to do despite my health problems and it’ll take me longer as usual.

I will continue to post from time to time during the summer. I wish you a lovely summer, not too hot 🥵!

Today it will be very hot here before going a little bit down next week. It is going up and down I think it will be all Summer like this!

Take good care and see you soon!

Thank you for all your visits!

Le Tour de France 🇫🇷!

 This morning I had my hair cut and made some changes! Then I came home and start my day routine. My ankle is a little less painful and I could walk in the house.

I am doing the laundry and vacuumed the ground floor, clean the kitchen, fold the dry clothes and now watch the cycle race “ the Tour de France!””🇫🇷 until the arrival in Rouen. ( they are cycling around France through fields, villages, towns and mountains!) staying tonight in Rouen and starting again tomorrow.

The weather fortunately for them is cool 23 C and sunny. Our daughter will be in Rouen where she lives to see the arrival. Many people along side the roads to encourage them!

Looking for veggie recipes for my DIL and her mom.

This blue hydrangeas is very big this year and still of a beautiful blue colour.

Tomorrow  morning I go to the garage to have my front tires  replaced and I will have to use my new steamer to do the clothes. ( I had the idea to leave my ironing and use a steamer like Mari! Thank you for the idea!)

Now I must have my iced foot bath and try to feel less pain on my ankle.

See you tomorrow, thank you for visiting.

What’s happening here?

 Hello friends!

What are the news here? Well, the problem in the house continue! Now after having the upstairs toilet repaired, on Sunday morning I noticed that some water was leaking from the ceiling from the repaired toilet to the downstairs  bathroom !

So I have the plumber come again… after the electrical problem we solved another problem occurred!

This morning I went to my physiotherapist and did some exercises for one hour and must go back on Thursday this is quite intensive!

The weather is much cooler and rainy which is good for us and for Nature. We can breathe! But heat is coming back in a few days.

On Saturday we got the wheelchair and I did some shopping for the grandchildren. I bought clothes on sale as usual so that they won’t have too much luggage to carry.

I don’t particularly like red, but I chose new red glasses 

Necklace and earrings! A cheerful colour!

As I loose my glasses in the house all the time this time I have glasses that stay around your neck and reassemble with a magnet.

This is my husband Lego Japanese garden! He can’t stop building, next one Himeji castle our daughter birthday present .

New sandals I found on sale this weekend very comfortable for my foot problem.

I slowly prepare our son’s family arrival. It won’t be as I usually do but I do my best. They will stay two nights in Paris to Disney park with the other grandma, the children will enjoy Disney world!

Now after all this morning exercises I must “rest”! 

See you soon! I will visit your blogs tonight.

“ the Tour de France”🇫🇷 bicycle race will go through Rouen today and will leave tomorrow and continue it’s trip through France!

Harvest time

Hello Friends!

Today, is a beautiful day summer day not too hot but only for two or three days to let us breeze a little and back to 33 and 35 C again!

Yesterday I went to the physiotherapist as usual these days. I had an X-Ray of my ankle before the MIR and the result is not very good. There is a calcification on my ankle bone that rubs on the Achilles tendon which is very painful. So I must rest and use a wheelchair to go out.

Tomorrow morning I ‘ll get the wheelchair and we will go to get some boys clothes on sales so that our children won’t have too much luggage. I am not doing much between my foot iced bath three times a day 😂!

Physiotherapist on Mondays and Thursdays for about three months.

Fortunately my DIL ‘s mother will arrive to help me!

These are the news for the moment…

Some pictures of our garden at the moment.

The field next to us will soon be harvested and I am scared as each summer nowadays of fire caused by the machines many fields are burning at the moment and many houses due to thunder. I’ll keep my fingers crossed nothing happens.

This is the field next to our house

 My beautiful linden tree has problems one side has normal size leaves on the right side and tiny leaves on the left and top I am trying to to bring fin more nutrition 

And water him a lot. The  harvest is beginning so I’ll have to leave you! See you soon!

Happy 4th of July to my US followers!

Heat and architecture.

Hello Friends !

When it’s so hot 🥵 (around 35C today) the hottest day of the week a place to be cool is a cathedral or a church !

I remember staying in Germany during the Summer holidays and visiting Koln (Cologne) it was so hot that I stayed most of the afternoon in the beautiful cathedral.

The first four pictures are from an Abbey close to us.

Very big and beautiful with a big garden around.

Some details of our Court of justice

Our Gros Horloge ( our big clock street)

Typical Normand houses

Rouen Cathedral 

This is from another church in Louviers such as beautiful piece of art!

(From Facebook)

 (From Facebook)

And finally I found this picture on facebook. A farmer had the idea to protect his cows from the heat, a good idea!

This afternoon I unfortunately have to go out to have a foot X ray before the MIR . It is very painful for me to walk for the moment and I will have no choice but to use a wheelchair for long walks when our son will arrive soon. I will get it on Saturday. Better a wheelchair than stay inside! We will see what’s wrong  and hope my problem can be solved…

Thank you for coming.

Very hot weather 🥵

Today, after my appointment to the physiotherapist I decided to go in the « Oison valley » to get some fresh air

Because we are having very high temperatures at the moment some places having 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees F. Nearly 50 C in Spain today!

This is a little river winding through the countryside  going to the big river Seine.

This is the smallest town hall of France 🇫🇷 

This was a restaurant we  sometimes used to go  there for an evening meal. It dates back to the 15 th century.

The food was specialities from Normandy and the inside a real museum!

 Well I am staying inside with our air conditioning on.

They have closed the schools too much heat and not adapted to this hot weather !

I am thinking about the people who are in hospital without air conditioning.

Monet’s garden and our second storm.

(Source Facebook)

A church destroyed by the thunderstorm last night.

Just bake a chocolate and banana loaf with a mango mochi!

Hello Friends!

Not much to say today except that we are safe.

The storm have killed two people in France and here two have been injured. The train traffic was stopped and the firemen have been called 700 times in our department.

As you can see on the two pictures this is the weather we had in the countryside close to us people took pictures and put them on facebook.

Today the temperature is much cooler, but back to heat tomorrow.

I have chosen some of my pictures of Giverny I love the nymphéa pound from Monet’s garden, hope you enjoy the pictures!

(Source Facebook)

( source Facebook)