That is...not in this type of weather anyways.
I left Australia because I couldn't breathe in the heat and humidity and now it follows me!
Low blood pressure is a nuisance in the heat as the blood goes to the skin to cool and consequently leaves other organs depleted causing nausea and faintness.
So will have to be more alert to the summers here now I know how hot they really get and muggy too...which I never expected.
Hahaha...
Oh well...
Will just have to manage my calendar better from now onwards.
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| You can tell how hot it is...everyone is shiny! Had the traditional glass of bubbly to say farewell...Damir, in the yellow shirt, owns the hostel in Belgrade and Zorana, the amazing receptionist is in the salmon coloured frock and the other girl is a friend of both. |
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| A lot different to last year at this time in Belgrade, Serbia. The platform was crowded with Syrians... |
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| I left and my tomato plants were up to my waist...6 days away and it's a jungle! |
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| One massive sunflower in bloom... |
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| The roof on the shed is completed as much as they can do for now...The right end is left to join into the new big room I'm doing in late August. Next they render the left end wall as it's exposed mud bricks, then they take out the internal dividing wall, then put in a floor and render roughly the walls inside. The final exterior wall render comes when the other buildings are all ready so they can do them all at once. |
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| So proud...my first and only cherry! I planted this tree in Oct and was very surprised to see the single cherry as the tree only had one flower and I never noticed anything until yesterday! Amazing. |
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| Mowing my living snow, as my sister calls it! |
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| Met an Aussie girl in Budapest when going to Belgrade last week and we hung out for 4 hours, touring around and chatting up the guys...again! |
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| In the New York Cafe again...looking with the Aussie girl...Annette |
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| Thought we'd be smart and see if this worked...it did! |
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| Overload of lights... |
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| Long ways...still too much... |
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| Back up to the lovely ceilings... |
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| Such detail and it is only a few years old too... |
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| This is a reflection in a mirror topped table...pretty mind blowing if you've had a few and are trying to eat... |
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| That's the big long mirror table there... |
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| Out the train window...I forget if it was morning or evening!!! Between Budapest and Belgrade. |
It's great to be home and in my nice cool house.
Will be going to Australia in about 2 weeks time now, as I have a couple of Aussie volunteer girls coming on Thursday for a month. They only booked in yesterday too!(Mon).
It will be a good time to leave as they can look after dog and mow and weed the gardens. I'll stay here a week and train them...they are 20 and 23 I think, so they should be OK. They just spent 3 months volunteering in some strange sounding place, so they should be used to it now.
I couldn't go earlier as the volunteer family had the little girl and she got into everything and you had to have eyes in the back of your head with her. So I wasn't game enough to leave her here!
All is good here, have mowed the whole paddock and Klaas had mowed my nature strips outside, so that was lovely.
Cleaned up the yard a bit from the guys working on the shed and tried to tie up those gigantic tomato plants! Boy, they grew about 18 inches in 6 days...amazing!
Transplanted some yellow tomato plants, some chilli and 4 marigolds this morning. Only 4 plants came up...boohooo...
Weeded all the front gardens and tidied up all my note taking books this morning too...a 6 inch pile of them... and feel very proud of myself as I've been trying to do that for 3 or so years!
I ripped pages out by the bag full and sorted the empty books all out as I generally forget to take a note book with me on my travels and end up buying and starting another one...so I ended up with too big a pile.
I draw house plans, think ,via writing notes...(having conversations with myself actually), plan trips away etc...I really could not get by without my note books...and lots of them!
It's 9.30 pm and my garden solar lights have just come on!
Still can't get used to it being so light, so late at night...hahaha...
OK...see you next time, cheers,
M
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