We tried to grow vegetables here, then herbs. No success, so we sowed a packet of mixed native flowers and left it, just pull out the obvious weeds occasionally.
I lost a friend today. My 2nd camera, an Olympus Stylus, it fell out of the pouch on my belt. We were walking off-piste so no chance or retracing our steps and finding it. It was a useful camera, it used the same battery, cable and charger as my main camera, but was small enough to carry on dog walks. It cost £364 in January 2015 and is no longer produced. On eBay you can find it for £360 to £460 2ndhand, which is ridiculous, as it was never a very good bridge camera compared to Canon etc., and you can buy a new EM10 Mk2 with lens for the same price, a much better camera. Won't be buying a new one. I have my eye eventually on an EM5 but that will cost nearly 1000€ and is something for a few years hence.
I would still try to find it... Maybe you will get lucky. It reminds me of a story of one lost gold earing in the sea. Few years ago my daugther went snorkling (normal activity around here) few meters deep and she found an earing. We realized this earing belonged to a very dear friend of ours. She has lost it many many years ago when she was just a baby, but they kept the other one as a memory. So keep searching....
@cherrymartina Thanks for your encouragement, I will give it a try over the next few days. I liked your story, I have one a little bit the same. Three years ago I was climbing towards the Spanish border on a path which I ahve never seen anybody else use. I encountered a couple and got talking to them. After 20 minutes conversation we realised we had been laboratory partners at university in London 28 years previously !
