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.

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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!

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( source Facebook)
 

Scary weather again

 Hello Friends !

Today I am preparing for this evening storm, big hail stones and thunder again! It will last from 6 pm until midnight. I will close our big wooden window shutters, put the car somewhere safe ( if possible) the hail going through the garage roof, put away everything from outside and keep my fingers crossed! It’s called a supercell storm !

Yesterday when I went to the hairdresser a man had hail impacts and windscreen from his three cars broken!

We also have possible tornado. Very unusual weather here,

We are a rainy part of France some wind in Autumn and winter but not this dangerous weather .

Hope not to have bad news next time! See you later.

My busy days.

 My day started by the physiotherapist appointment.

I have got problems with my feet and legs at the moment 

The nurse is coming tomorrow for a blood test to see what is the problem. 

Then I went to have my hair cut. This is a little hairdresser in the country where there is a friendly atmosphere and many laughters !

After the hairdresser I went to the nearby supermarket where I bought a pack of six bottles of milk which were good until 14 March 2025! It was still on sale !

I had an argument with the owner because he did not mind selling expired milk. It’s expired since a long time.

Then I went to the post office to send a letter to our insurance to get the money we have spent on new glasses after we both broke them 😂  now I am waiting for our home insurance after our electrical problems due

 To thunder. The bad news is that the same weather will occur tomorrow evening…

The air space over UAE Dubaï is closed so I don’t know when our grandchildren will be able to come.

Maxime was so happy to come, asking me to prepare all the toys. He wants to go back to Rouen and visit the cathedral and Viking museum again. He is asking many times a day when will he take the airplane  to see grandma 

I am busy  with the physiotherapist twice a week and firms coming to do works in the house and so on…

I will visit your blogs in the evenings.

It is very hot here we have heat from Africa at the moment.

I wish you a nice week!

A picture in the forest.

 Hello Friends !

These days I was not on my blog, I was very busy with the  electrical problems we had after the big hail thunderstorm last week. They could not solve the problem, they came back today and we will see if it is fixed tonight and the coming days.

The blue photo is in England Dartmoor forest. This is a photo my son took while sailing in Greenland with his drone. This is the third time his photos are selected, once in National Geographic traveller . If i remember this one will go around England with the National Trust.

The boat is in the dark blue circle.

I hope to be able to see my son , DIL and grandchildren from Dubaï, but for the moment we don’t know if they will be able to come? It is difficult to fly and not safe enough.

It is very, very hot 35 degrees Celsius! The air conditioning is welcomed! I only go out early in the morning. This is all for the moment I wish you a nice weekend!

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!