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  • Grains – Harvesting Before the Rain

    Grains – Harvesting Before the Rain

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to my watch, and farmers, a storm is coming. That’s why they are busy trying to harvest all the grain before it hits. At this time of year you can watch the combine harvesters harvesting all the fields and collecting grain. You can then see tractors following up and gathering…

  • Walking Down The Jura

    Walking Down The Jura

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I woke up and instead of cycling up to see this view and have a meal I decided to do the opposite. I would walk down. Two or three summers ago I walked up and they took four or five hours. Walking down is much easier. One or two bits are…

  • A nice day for a ride

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the weather is good and there is no wind it makes sense to go for a bike ride. The roads were quiet for the most part but a few cars still passed too close and too fast. The challenge is to find the quietest, least dangerous route. I am still…

  • The Landscape

    The Landscape

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe view is not as good as sometimes. A few clouds but with the haze hiding the Alps today.

  • Grapes and Apples

    Grapes and Apples

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have seen combine harvesters at work over the last two days. Yesterday I saw them harvesting colza, and today I saw them harvesting wheat. At the moment you see grapes that are still in a juvenile state, and apples that look a little more mature, growing on their respective plants. When…

  • Relaxing Cows – The Right Crowd To Be With During A Pandemic

    Relaxing Cows – The Right Crowd To Be With During A Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring a pandemic it makes sense to go to the mountains and it makes sense to walk where you have space to the left and right to keep social distancing. Today I saw the cows near St Cergue and they were all sitting and relaxing, chewing the cud, waiting for the tourist…

  • Rain and Water Tables

    Rain and Water Tables

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an article on Swiss Radio and Television that discusses the positive impact that the flooding has had on the water tables. For several years not only have we had warm weather but we have also gone with very little or no rain for months at a time. During some weeks…

  • Ignored by Sunflowers

    Ignored by Sunflowers

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe title of this post is a joke, not a serious delusion of isolation. I saw that a few sunflowers had come out but that they were looking away, rather than towards me. They are looking at the morning sun and I was walking in the afternoon. They are still in the…

  • Solitary Bike Rides

    Solitary Bike Rides

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo weeks ago, it looked as though next summer we could be out of the pandemic. This weekend, it looks as though the pandemic will never end. Every single time Europe looks as if it has a chance of ending the pandemic, it breaks for either Christmas or the Summer holiday. Every…

  • Home Before The Storm

    Home Before The Storm

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the games I like to play is to look at the weather app and see when the rain is scheduled to arrive. I then estimate whether I will make it home before the rain. I took rain stuff just in case, to keep electronics etc dry but I don’t mind…