Out and About

1 - 6 January 2021

The nice weather continues, so we were pottering about in the garden

Almost half of our cauliflowers have been ravaged by Cabbage White caterpillars.  The weather is so warm they are having a second season - in January!   Shocking, and deeply worrying.

The cat catching the sun on the back terrace - this wants to be a painting.

I love it when we have rainbows over the house.  When that fine drizzle and sunshine happen together I leap out of the house with a camera to try for a good rainbow pic.  This one wasn't quite high enough.

In the living room - a very bold gecko on the door frame

Rose pruning time.

Both roses

This wonderful fruit/vegetable is called a Choco or Chayote.  It is a perennial vine, and the fruit are edible, in the cucumber family.  We were given a big bowl of these by Kostas the farmer, and after distributing them among our gardening friends - and eating one to try it out - we planted the remaining three.  They were already sprouting when they went in the soil, so are definitely keen to grow.  We'll keep them in the solarium until April as they like it hot.

Tadpoles in the pond.  Last year we only finished the pond in March, and got tadpoles in early April (presumably when the toads found us).  This year they've started very early, and maybe second-generation home-spawned toads!