This afternoon at 3pm (French time) the lovely Prime Minister stood up to give a speech in the House of Deputies about the plan for getting out of lockdown. I gather it went on for at least 1 hour and 6 minutes. I've not listened to it and I'm not going to talk about it here (or at any rate not today).
The other thing I'm not going to write about today is face masks - I'd planned to have a nice cathartic rant about stupidity and face masks, as I thought the weather was going to be pants. It wasn't so I won't. Perhaps tomorrow or Thursday.
Instead, more of the usual - cats, plants, vegetables - you can zone out here if you like. I won't know so I won't be offended.
This morning we discovered a rat burrow - actually not so difficult to discover, as there was a vast pile of freshly dug soil and rubble outside the chicken run - like a giant mole hill. John has borrowed our next door neighbour's old but effective rat trap and placed it in the burrow entrance - of course if we catch any, we will have to deal with them as it is a live trap, but we really didn't want to use poison as it is too indiscriminate. If a mouse eats some and is then caught and eaten by a cat, the cat gets very ill (how I lost one of mine I think). The contents of the trap could be tomorrow's excitement! Our neighbour is very excited anyway.
This afternoon was cat in the country feeding time. Fergus was cross with me as he swatted Spooky who wanted a cuddle, so I told him off. He went and had a really high quality sulk at me at a distance.
Once I had dealt with three of the boys, I went to check out the wildflower meadow - all was looking very lovely, although the pesky bee orchids are still being very shy. In a couple of weeks I expect I won't be able to move for the wretched things, but currently they are hiding. I did meet this very fine furry caterpillar though - eating its way through what seemed to be clover, it was about an inch and a half long. I wonder what it will be when it grows up?
Donald decided to help me take photos in the meadow, including my favourite irises (for tomorrow), and other bits and bobs. I suspect this is not how to take selfies!
Finally, I picked a few broad beans - they are still very tiny, so ideal for pretentious chefs, but I'd got to that stage where I could wait no longer!
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