Spider

Cleared the garden

I burnt all the clippings I'd heaped up in the garden and a few larger pieces of wood left over from "stuff". I used the BBQ as a fire pit and then, towards the end thought I might as well have a bbq... seeing as the embers were so hot (see below)

...and had a BBQ

On the embers of the garden rubbish I cooked 2 sausages, I also smoked a whole bulb of garlic on the embers aswell, but I also ended up half roasting it so I didn't think it would keep very long, I had a few cloves with this and that and composted the rest. Tasty!

Prawns for Lunch

Prawns fried with 3 cloves of garlic, black pepper and then lightly covered in mayonnaise then served in romaine lettuce leaves and eaten with the hands like lettuce sandwiches... mmm.

Hardly a bad price

Currently on half price at £3.99 this wine is rather good value. Then take into account that if you buy 6 bottles (or more) Sainsburys give you 25% off, you end up with a bottle of wine around the £3 instead of it's regular £7.99. Weighing in at 13.5% it packs a punch without being too strong; It tastes pretty good too...

Massive pasta

Test Photo

Finally my phone is back from the repairs and seems to be in good order.

Update

The main reason i'm not updating my blog very much is because my mobile is currently broken and being repaired... as such I can't take good photos and blog them quickly.

it's been over a week now so I expect my phone back any minute...

New Look

I have re-vamped the image of this blog and added a counter to see if anyone reads it, as I have done almost nothing else in many months I doubt it will tick over particularly fast.

Walking home from the city

Bacon Sarnie

DIY understair shelving

Ham & Brie Toastie

vote dodge on a daily basis...

http://www.fuelmyblog.com/index.jsp?t=mybowlad

Swanborough new residences

explanation of Ladybird photos (below)

Cut back the fig tree in the garden today, it had grown across the pavement.

Saw ladybirds, apparently England is under threat from Ladybirds, it's the terrorists' secret weapon.

or rather:
Britain's best-loved beetle, the ladybird, is under threat from the world's most invasive ladybird species - the harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis).
A UK-wide survey, launched on Tuesday 15 March 2005 at the Natural History Museum, is calling for gardeners, farmers and wildlife enthusiasts to record any harlequin ladybirds they find.

The survey results will reveal how widely the harlequin has spread throughout Britain and provide vital information on the potential threat to the UK's native ladybirds.
An extremely voracious predator, the harlequin ladybird easily out-competes native ladybirds for its preferred food of green fly and scale insects. When these food sources are scarce they readily prey on native ladybirds and other insects such as butterfly eggs, caterpillars and lacewing larvae.

The harlequin ladybird was introduced to North America from Asia to control plant pests and, 20 years later, has become North America's commonest ladybird. First spotted in the UK in September 2004, sightings have mainly been confined to the south east of Britain.
‘The harlequin is a deadly threat to our own British ladybirds’, commented Dr Michael Majerus, for Cambridge University. ‘We need to monitor them closely in order to assess the spread and impact of the insect.’

Dr Helen Roy from Anglia Polytechnic University, one of the partners in the project, adds ‘monitoring ladybird populations has never been so important.’

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2005/march/news_3416.html
http://www.harlequin-survey.org/

Cour D'Honneur

Concert au palais princier.

Ugliest yacht..................................

(In the world?)

Pasta salad

Hermitage Toilet

Excessively luxurious. :)

"Floating" musicians

This rather amusing floating band of black-clad 'angels' played some rather entertaining music which all the small children, including myself, enjoyed. Spent the morning on the beach. Tiring day. :)

Ages ago...

Metropole

Homemade salad lunch.

Carrefour fish counter

Salad niceoise

In villefranche...

LA dancing girls

Ethical?

Promoting eating sea horses... Aren't they endangered?