We’ve just returned from 3 fabulous days away with chums who live about 4 hours south of us - it would have been lovely to have spent longer but as we returned as saw the sorry state of the veggies and sunflowers we realised it was a good decision to only go for a short break - it’s been 100 degrees for the past 3 days and without water everything is looking very sad - despite that, we came home and managed to harvest a couple of courgettes, a few tomatoes and were happy to see that there are another half dozen aubergines sprouting and the fig tree is heavy laden with ripening fruit (photo above of some of the figs we’ll be having for breakfast) - this is wonderful to see but means I’ll have to be diligent about the wasp traps so that we can get to the fruit before they do!
The sunflowers (pictured above) and gladioli are all coming out which is a joy to see and our chums very kindly also gave us some of the bounty from their garden - a few bags of green beans, some greek peppers, lots of cherry tomatoes and a variety of herbs so coming back to an empty fridge isn’t a problem and I may even be able to put off a visit to the grocery store for a few days which is always a bonus!
Photos above and below are of us and our chums at the river just by their house and also at the wier which has a chute actually made for canoes to get through but used by many as a water slide either ‘bareback’ or on floats - we took a couple of ski biscuits and enjoyed ourselves immensely yesterday afternoon - the perfect way to escape the heat!
So it is that we’re back on the ‘farm’ hoping the weather cools so I can do some sensible work in the veggie patch - I bumped into the farmer that takes hay from our fields twice a year and asked him if he would give us some manure for our veggie patch - he said ‘of course’ and started up his tractor and off he went - this was a week ago and there’s still no sign of any manure - on the one hand we’re pleased that it wasn’t sitting in the middle of our courtyard as we returned from our short break, on the other hand, we’ve no idea when to expect it or how much to expect - we shall report back once we have a sighting of either the farmer or ‘our’ manure!
On Wednesday the stonemasons begin work on the piggery and we shall be heading to the Mayor’s office to let them know of our plans - we just hope and pray that it’s as straightforward as everyone tells us it is otherwise it may be a bit late with the back wall slated to be “broken” into by close of play Wednesday!
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