Things seem to be progressing well with my Portakabin (or Phileas’ Folly as someone has kindly renamed it!) up to a point that is. Visiting a couple of days ago, I was concerned that the chosen tiles for the bathroom
made the room look a bit dark until I realised that the planned windows had not been installed. Oooops! I am assured, though, that rectifying this minor problem will not delay the planned completion date of 20th December. We shall see!
The countryside around my folly is packed with wildlife and vegetation including, I am somewhat nervous to say, snakes’ Luckily (or sadly for him!) this one suffered the steamroller treatment
before it got close! I couldn’t get quite close enough, though, to catch and befriend this gecko
as did the detective in the Death in Paradise TV series. Did you know that Geckos don’t have eyelids and therefore don’t blink. They occasionally clean their eyes with their extraordinarily long tongues. It’s amazing what you learn!
Much of the vegetation is there for the taking if you can climb high enough
or if you know what you’re picking.
Closer to the sea it’s all about sea food, both dry
and wet,
most of which tastes delicious.
I’m not sure, though, about these horseshoe crabs. Not only do they not look remotely like a horseshoe, from certain angles they look more as if they’ve had large plastic Tupperware bowls stuffed onto their heads!
Somewhat bizarrely, it appears that the blood from these creatures is used to test intravenous drugs and equipment for the presence of bacteria.
It really is a very strange world indeed !
I must stop constantly talking about food. There is so much more to this country than that which meets the stomach!
Phileas.
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