So what happened in September?

In mid august we went to see a friend performing acrobatics and the like on top of a hill in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere – it was fun!

I popped down to Belgrade to bring Sanja back so she could finally stay here for good. Sadly the Croatian border guards were playing up that night and we – along woith many others – spent about 5 hours at the border crossing from Serbia into Croatia. Thankfully Sanja getting in and staying turned out to be no problem!

A annual music festival in Zadar is always a good excuse to visit friends on the island of Pasman and clock one of its amazing sunset scenes.

One of our oft neglected pot plants decided to surprise us with a sudden spurt of growth and flowers! It has a variety of colourful names but the one I like best is Thor’s beard!

After much work with the lawnmower, strimmer and machete most of my tree linking paths have been re-established. Now their maintainence is my challenge.

An old friend popped in and spent th best part of the day mowing our lawns – beautifully!

On a walk around the valley we met one of our neighbours who insisted we took home part of his mushrooms haul from that day. We had spotted plenty growing in the woods but had no idea which were safe and which were not. We picked one more ouselves and added it to the bag. One the way back through the village another neighbour inspected our haul and was impressed all except for the one we had picked that he threw out and indicated that it would have been a bad idea to eat it! We fell about laughing! Over the next three days the rest of the mushrooms were cut into chunks fried in olive oil with either onion or garlic and went down a treat!

The passion fruit plant that I planted a year or two ago by the post box on our front fence has finally flowered and looks magnificent.