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| agapanthus |
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| jasmine |
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| nemesia |
It’s been a lovely day and just so nice to see the sunshine again.
There has been hardly any wind either so it
was a perfect morning for cycling.
When we
got back we had lunch outside on the terrace and then an afternoon just
pottering around in the garden.
Paul is
cooking paella for supper and then we shall probably watch a film on Netflix.
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| lacewing hydrangea that was so badly hit by frost |
We rarely venture out into the garden after dark, there aren’t many warm,
balmy evenings in this part of England.
However, we do have a lot of outside lights fixed to the side of the
bungalow so we can light up the terrace should we want to.
Paul has been busy replacing the old and broken
lights with nice, sturdy new ones.
He
has also connected them to our virtual assistant, Alexa, so she can turn the
lights on for us.
All we have to say is,
“Turn on the garden lights” and hey presto, the lights come on.
This sort of magic fascinates me. The only
drawback is that our daughter, Kat,shares our Alexa account and can probably control
our lights from Brize Norton.
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| not a Lincolnshire photo but the view from my daughter's (Sarah) flat in Sydney |
That picture of Sydney looks something like Romford High Street.
ReplyDeleteNewtown, a bohemian suburb of Sydney's inner west.
DeleteThat hydragea looks beautiful in spite of the frost.
ReplyDeleteIt's fighting back.
DeletePlants looking very healthy. You have a beautiful patio. Enjoy the paella!
ReplyDeleteThe paella was excellent.
DeleteOooh, my sunset made it to the blog!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist that sky.
DeleteVery much 'eating outdoors' weather here, and with sunset at after 9.30 pm we still haven't used the outdoor lights yet. Another hot day forecast for today.
ReplyDeleteIt's being a typical English summer so far so al fresco meals are a bit of a rarity.
DeleteI thought that the Magic Lights was the sunset.
ReplyDeleteWell it is that too!
DeleteI love the nemesias. My grandmother used to grow them/love them, and I hadn't thought of growing them myself. Might do so now. Thank you for the reminder
ReplyDeleteThey just keep flowering all summer long.
DeleteYour garden is beautiful and a credit to all the hard work you've both put in over the past year.
ReplyDeleteThe main outdoor lights around the house, here, are controlled by a "Dusk to Dawn" sensor, which means that I don't have to worry about remembering to turn them on or off. The rest of the lights are either on a time clock or are solar powered. I do like to see a nicely lit garden, especially as we don't have any street lights.
We also have some solar powered uplighters scattered around the garden, I love the effect of underlit foliage.
DeleteI hope that Kat is not a mischievous young woman. Being in the RAF she probably knows some morse code and could flash messages with your garden lights using Alexa. "Alexa, spell out 'This Is The Target'in morse code!"
ReplyDeleteShe is very mischievous, she crashed a Hercules last week. Luckily it was only a simulator.
DeleteLoving the snapshots, and oh that orange sky is magical.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist including that one.
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