Friday, 6 September 2013

Bye bye summer

We went to the beach yesterday and we reckon it may have been our last visit this year... The place was more or less deserted. The children have gone back to school and the tourists have returned to their homes. There were only a bunch of old people scattered around and we were probably the youngest people there.

The beach on a busy day

The bar will remain open until October, so we might go for a drink and give the swimming a miss. While we were sitting by the bar, Peter noticed some "ducks" coming out of the water. I didn't think they looked like ducks, so I went a bit closer to investigate. They were Canadian geese. We'll know summer is officially over when they fly away in their neat formation.

Summer took a while to get going this year, but it was a good one. Our potatoes didn't disappoint and the tomatoes were very tasty. We definitely deserved some decent weather and a few garden treats after the wettest spring in recent memory!

The "young" couple

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Mirror mirror...

View sent us this funny video. Enjoy! Thanks, View.

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Lots of dogs, a car and a birthday

Amy and View sent us this video:



It reminded me of another commercial, so I searched for it:



They're both very well done...

Thank you, Amy and View.

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Today it's 1smartcanerican's birthday!


Have a very special day, dear friend.

Monday, 2 September 2013

Shepherd's delight

I took this photo at 9 pm last night and remembered the rhymes:

In Great Britain and Ireland:

"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight.
Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning."

There's a slightly different version in North America:

"Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight."


I don't now about the shepherds, but I was delighted this morning! We should have some very nice weather all this week...