It's a good one. All credit and thanks to Marie Therese for growing the little darling and leaving it at our door.
Saturday 23 July 2011
The gift of cabbage...
It's a good one. All credit and thanks to Marie Therese for growing the little darling and leaving it at our door.
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Images that made me smile...
There's a lesson to be learned here,the old stonework is outlasting the modern repair.Accidental art, kept catching my eye every time I travelled to Rennes.Now near useless as a working fireplace, the house long since gone, it's historic hospitality remains in service as a thing of beauty for all to enjoy.
It took two photos to get the whole image in , I apologise.
Plums that I can eat at last.Since I visited my grandfather's orchard as a child I have stayed clear of shop bought plums, picked before truly ripe. Sugarless sour and extremely expensive as a gamble.Those days are over .Apricots, tomatoes and strawberries also. You have missed the cherry season, it was delicious.
We are still sorting out the rubble , even the mud is being salvaged, when it's dry it sets like concrete. I will pour it into the stonework as a slurry when the time comes to stick the walls down in their permanent positions. We are still on te lookout for a source of large boulders,there will be time for explanations later.
Having the images smile back sometimes makes the work feel more worthwhile.Today the ground is saturated from a great deluge, my fingernails are worn quite thin from abrasion, the skin on my hand is cracked from constant exposure to rock and grit. The little I do today wont amount to much, certainly nothing worthy of a photo.
The promise of several more days of heavy rain is not a cheery prospect
, in between downpours I will prepare for the next big effort of work.
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