Yesterday afternoon, in the continuing miraculously clear and noonday-warm winter weather we have been experiencing for some weeks now, Sandra led me on an exploratory walk through abandoned and forgotten structures on our land. These included hencoops and rabbit-hutches which, although held up by a seemingly solid wall, were perilously close to a thousand foot chasm which, from aerial heights, overlooked the once splendiferous Villa Fiori, now also sadly abandoned.

Perhaps I might use one of these cliff-top chambers to spend some meditative days pondering on the vanity of the world?

Later we came across this particularly magnificent and savage feline disporting himself among equally wild daffs:

In the evening further bizarre sights welcomed me.

Were these the traces of magic mushroom rings or the effects of alien flying saucers landing in our garden? No, not so far. The radiating illuminations were merely the special effects of our recently purchased and very cheapo solar garden lights which will signal a way to our garden bench even on the darkest of nights. Maybe then we will come across hallucinogenic fungi or immigrants from the Planet Thaarg X34B6…