16 Aug 2025

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

The weather is always a good topic of conversation when nothing much is happening. This time I have to complain about the unusual heat. It's 30°C or more. So we hang around and complain about the heat. Some stay in our air-conditioned restaurant, and a few others and I prefer to sit under a tree in the shade with a little breeze.

Our air conditioner in the restaurant must be as old as the castle, it's noisy and the ventilation blows you away. After the last heat wave a month ago, everybody had a running nose and was coughing as an old cow. As I got a bronchitis for nearly a month, I prefer my tree and my room to the antique air condition. Monday passed by chatting together unfortunately the two men not older then me started their favorite chat theme .... wars ! We girls got fed up and I told them to stop to talk about things as if they had been soldiers but they weren't born or just 5 years old ! The Algerian war, the Japanese war etc etc, until I told them to move under another tree and discuss what they had done better. 

The next day I took my car in which it was nice and cool and drove a bit around, stopped at the pharmacy and passed by "our" house, but I didn't feel any regret, I found it very nice what the new owners had done. 

Then I visited a friend I had known through Facebook and who had lost her husband a few month ago. Her cat had had 3 kitten, I had seen them once shortly after birth but now two of them have found another home but she had kept little 6 months old Theo. He showed me that it was hot, I had to laugh when I saw him laying on the sofa. We chatted a bit and then I returned home.
 
The next day Jeanine and I wanted to go out and eat Mussels, which we did, they were excellent and so much that we had difficulties to finish our pot !
 
We calculated when we had been in this restaurant the last time and counting the Covid time, the diseases of our husbands the result was 6 years ! 
Maybe this was the start to a new "old" life ! 
 
The next day we went shopping, because on August 15 it's a bank holiday, because Mary, Jesus mother went to heaven according to the catholic church. People had a long weekend thanks to this event. 
 
We only had 28°C and suddenly I wanted to paint ! I had a bag ready with my colors and a canvas, I grabbed the bag and an empty water bottle and found the ideal place under a huge tree in the shade.
 
The result was not so good, but at least it was a start and then I can change it when it is dry.
 
Then we had our coffee and even watermelons and it was so nice that the staff from the kitchen had to call us in for supper ! 
 

 
 
 

 
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3 comments:

  1. Dear Ingrid, your cat photos are delightful! I am glad that you got to dine out and that you enjoyed a meal of mussels! Watermelons are so refreshing, especially in the summer when it gets very hot! Thank you so much for sharing your adventures and your lovely photos!

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  2. It's so nice you can drive out to restaurants with your friends. It's good to see you painting again.

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  3. I'm so glad you're painting again. I can see you running an art class soon! A gentle breeze in the shade of a tree sounds perfect when it's hot. Theo is beautiful. He looks so comfortable on 'his' sofa.

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