Hedgehog

JC leaves them the rind of the finest French cheeses, which they can sniff out from a long way off.

We have a mother tailed by 2 babies, and a baby which likes to go it alone, here pictured.

The children are very impressed because they have a bumbling mode which is very appealing, but when roused raise themselves up on long legs and shoot into the distance.

A proud moment for the Pride of India tree, which needs a hot summer for its flowers to develop.

Our exotic fruit tree fruits for the first time, it flowered in January. Our neighbour told us there are many of these trees in Portugal and the fruit are good, so we cut some down and ate them, like a mixture between an apricot, plum and sharon fruit, declared DELICIOUS!

African Trumpet Vine trumpets