A Run and news.

   My daughter Maud ( nickname Momaud as written and in the footsteps of Heroes! Run for Freedom starting from Pegasus Bridge where English soldiers arrived with their

Sale planes they landed in the nearby swamps but most of them survived.

 It’s been quite hard here ( i don’t want to complain) but the electrical problem is more serious . All our electrical system has been damaged and the electricians are coming again tomorrow. Many houses have had this problem around us.

They came in urgency yesterday. They had to cut part of our power to avoid a short circuit. So no need to say i don’t sleep well and have the extinguisher nearby.

No need to say that i will be very busy contacting the insurance company and stressing 😣 

We are not the only one other people have holes in their roofs because of the very big hailstones.

Another bad news, my son told me that some flights are cancelled because of the war in the Middle East  so our son may not be able to to come but safety first!

Hope everything settles and that it doesn’t cost a lot! I am not optimistic…

A terrible evening

This is from Facebook we did not have so big hailstones here but four kms from home.🏡 120 km/h wind some tornadoes.

 Hello friends 

We had a terrible evening from 7pm to midnight. Very strong winds, big broken branches and electrical problems in our house!

We heard a terrible Bang 💥 and the ground and walls had  strong vibrations. Power cut in the whole house except the fridge and my recliner?…

But we have some electric device in the attic and I think the thunder damaged it .

The electrician is coming to see where are the damages in fact I could not sleep all night I was scared that the roof and attic took fire.

Today we have to cut the branches and to repair the electrical. Nearby hailstones were 2,75 inches or 7 centimetres damaged cars and roofs and windows..

There were many floods in Normandy too.

The temperature is less hot but still a lot of humidity.

I will have to rest this afternoon!

Today’s rough weather and new in my wardrobe.

A bag I found in the Netherlands last year for Summer.

This is the coloured tops I found last weekend.

This bright pink will go with a navy blue jeans

 Hello friends 

Today we are in orange alert ‼️ we are supposed to have very strong winds, hailstorms and thunder by the end of afternoon! Now that the trees have their leaves there will be many broken branches again. We may have tornadoes…

If there is hail ( they can be big hailstones ) I think I will take the car in the garage, but we have trees close to the garage so I have to choose the best way to protect the car?

In fact I took it in the garage..

We are having very hot weather and a lot of humidity this is why we’ve storm the air is suffocating. It is 30C some places have 36C not usual for a moth of May!

As I told you last weekend we went to do some shopping and I found some new pieces of clothing. I usually wear dark colours navy blue, black, dark green, but with my grandchildren arriving soon, I thought that a grandma with colours would be more cheerful!😀 

A beautiful blue flower

This afternoon I had an appointment and had to drive through the countryside. The flax fields are starting to to bloom. This is a delicate ephemeral flower. It blooms only a few days, open when there is light and sun and close when the sun sets. It has a delicate pastel blue colour.

We are the first producers of flax and this flax becomes beautiful linen fabric.

When the flowering ends it becomes all greyish and dry.

It is torn out and let  to dry on the ground before collecting it.

Look at this beautiful tiny blue flower!

Isn’t she beautiful and fragile! Difficult to imagine it will be transformed into fabric. The stem will become the thread.
 

This is the flax after the bloom and dry and the finished fabric. In Summer I love wearing this fabric but people don’t like it because it creases, but I don’t mind.

Today it will be very hot before thunderstorms the following days as usual here!

The sand from Sahara desert is arriving and the smoke from the Canadian fires are reaching our country so difficult to see the sun and no blue sky today but over 30C in some places. Better stay inside!

Another long weekend.

Our long weekend. Three days off with a bank holiday.

What did we do?

On Saturday my husband took the dog for a long walk

While I prepared everything before leaving to some of our favourite shops after lunch. I had prepared a quick salad.

I decided to get some more colourful clothes for Summer!

I have mostly navy blue or dark colours in my wardrobe.

( I will show you my purchase in a next post)

We had something to drink and went to another town where my husband bought himself a new Lego box ( a Japanese garden) 😂 

Then on Sunday we decided to to do something inside as the weather was not too good and we did some deep cleaning all afternoon till late.

On Monday we were invited for lunch at our daughter in Rouen.

She has brought me a gift from Vienna a

Christmas decoration that she bought on her cycle trip along the Danube. I love it! It will be very nice on our Christmas tree!

There even are a fork and spoon

 This weekend my husband has built one of his Birthday present our son has sent him the Lego « Trevi fountain » in Rome.

He finished building it at 2 in the morning !

I had news from Dubai 

Our son should be coming end of July until the two first weeks of August. He is organising a long weekend by the sea in Normandy (Honfleur) in a rented house with an indoor swimming pool, this should be nice if the weather is not good!

Till then we’ll have to get everything out of the cabinets and get the toys out and ready to play with maybe buy a swing for the boys…

I must get ready for the new week and wish you a good day!

Two visitors

 Hello Friends,

We are having a bank holiday today and the weather is fine.

Look at this sleeping boy! He is coming soon to visit grandma with William his little brother.

Grandma will be busy preparing everything as usual.

Impatient to have them home!

The day we had the grass cut I had another visitor at night!

Mr Fox who was hunting.

Have a nice week!

Haymaking.

 

Today we had our field mowed. The grass was very high

But they came this morning and it is done!

You can hardly see the engine on the right.

The weather was not sunny, we had little rain early in the morning, but the grass was dry for 8 AM.

We already have a visitor ready for mice hunting !

Now we will have to paint the little shed which was our donkeys and goats house long ago.

It’s a shed for wild visitors now a shelter for the winter.

The field is twice bigger than on the picture and now it will be mowed in September.

You can see the forest at the back ( what Maxime calls the « jungle »!)

We had deers sleeping in the tall grass of our field and had to wait until the mother and babies left.

A mother and three babies.

 A beautiful visitor!

Have a nice day!