Following our Bunny incident a few days ago, we’ve now had a lizard one. This time the culprit seems to be The Boy after one of his “What shall I bring home today?” hunting trips.  While we do have a number of reptiles inhabiting our garden (slow worms, Gecko, grass snakes)  we had yet to come across this particular beauty. Needless to say our three dogs were quick off the mark to take the lizard off The Boy but happily, with all their bumbling about, the dear little creature managed to make good his escape and hide behind one of our office shutters.

After herding all our animals indoors I took my camera to capture on film (albeit digital) this truly remarkable green lizard.  Like many of the lizards, around here part of his tail was missing but this seemed to be an old wound from an earlier debacle. We found him absolutely gorgeous and much admired his almost fluorescent green body colour and beautifully long, long fingers.  I managed to take a few photos before he scuttled away to safety.

Talking of green-eyed monsters I received a press release yesterday which piqued my interest. I normally don’t like to discuss political or social issues  on the website  but felt this one deserved mention, particularly as I had published an article written by Martin Hills in 2004, about Ewan and Caroline Scutcher and their restaurant La Table du Mareyeur. The article was entitled:  “Graduating from the Fish Course” and you can click here to read it and the press release I received.

Blessed as the French Riviera is with such superb weather, it is therefore one of the congenial delights here to sit outside when dining out; even more so when it’s a waterside terrace. For a restaurant to lose a large part of such a terrace and consequently a substantial portion of their income is bad news indeed. So it is that La Table du Mareyeur is facing legal action to have it evicted from a large part of its waterside terrace, in use for the past 18 years and by the previous restaurant for 12 years before that. A petition is presently underway and you can add your support by clicking here.

It is difficult to say how this rather unhappy situation will resolve itself but I do wonder if there isn’t a green-eyed monster lurking behind it all. If there is, he may do well to watch his tail too.