We brought the rain with us

We have been back just over a week and brought the rain with us. Morocco doesn't do drizzle so we spent quite a while hunkering inside, although we were lucky that last Tuesday was dry with small friendly clouds so we could get our essential european supplies in Agadir without getting wet. We travelled via Charleroi again because it's so much cheaper even when you pay twice for bags, and as the flight goes to Agadir, 24 hours car hire, which costs the same as a taxi from Agadir, fetches us home for dinner time and then allows a trip shopping to Agadir the next day and then Beloved returns the car and comes home by taxi. We thought we had learned no Arabic over the summer but Beloved was able to read the signs at the taxi rank to get the right destination, although of course the Taroudant taxi didn't go from the signed rank but the next along. Any way the stopover en route means I have a nice evil little stock of Belgian chocolate.
The hibiscus hedge has grown completely out of hand and is over Beloved's head height which is about 3' higher than it should be so he has some work to do. One of the plumbago plants is thriving happily now it is moved to the patio; the one in the pot next to it has died. The second draecena has died and the fan palm is unhappy although the weed  in it's pot is turning into a really good tree. The cacti have had babies and the pelargoniums have disappeared.
We have bought some yuccas to replace the draecena as an experiment because I am still quite jealous of the Artist's in her garden in Spain, and some succulents to replace the pelargoniums. If they don't survive the summer on the terrace we will have to resort to more cacti.



Yuccas waiting to be planted





Succulents waiting to be planted





The weed in the fan palm has strange fruit