Nearly at the summit

Been a good sunny warm day here, bees are swarming out to enjoy a bit of sight seeing, at best they may be flying over to our 700 meter distant neighbour, whose garden is full of flowering crocus and starting to make some Safran honey.

However in middle Germany where today the carnival celebrations rech their peak, UK's storm "Imogen" has forced Mainz and Duessldorf to cancel their parades but Cologne will go ahead on a restricted basis. Here more parades, Angie went over to her sister north of Munich to the town of Geisenfeld's parade. Normally we would go to Angie's birth town near Munich tomorrow for their parade but Imogen is due tonight and is forecast to make tomorrows parade a wash out.

I spent the day messing about in the garden, inspecting some blown over trees on our property but over a stream. One or two are problematic, still standing at an angle but the trunk split vertically at the base. A very dangerous job to cut them down. Kind of hoping Imogen helps. Will have to get the trunks down and pulled over the stream soon as the tops are in a farmers field and with the warm weather he will probably want to start preparing it with slurry etc.

Need MrB' s tractor winch - happened to see Mr and MrsB as we drove back from dog walk where the Blip was taken. Had a quick chat before Imogen's approaching brought drizzle and the B's still had to walk their dog.

Back home preparing the horses evening bedding, ended up spending nearly three hours dancing with the dogs, horses and Lui the cat with the stable radio turned up to max - the station playing non stop carnival hits in preparation for all the balls going on tonight. I filmed loads of our antics on the mobile and wanted to upload a selection on Tuesday but the events in the early morning near Rosenheim have ended the carnival spirit prematurely throughout Bavaria.

The mountains in the Blip ought to be the alps around the Zugspitze, Germany's tallest at around 3000m. In the foreground our village. Taken at 5:00pm