Just a quick one...

for those of you who are wondering what's happened this week.

The road builders are still out there doing what they do best - well, not at this moment obviously but all week from 8am till 6pm with the traditional 2pm till 3pm lunch break.  The big Cat has gone, the road grader is grading and shaping drains and 2 different sized diggers are making large holes and trenches for concrete drains to be laid for rain run-off.  A couple of other guys are cementing stones around the new drains and  laying stones on top of the large dry stone walls built last week by the Cat.

In the house, J has been tiling the kitchen floor.  It's been a long time coming but while the weather is dry and sunny it makes no sense at all to start indoor work.  Last weeks forecast was not good so he tiled instead.  But the weather wasn't that bad really only a day or so of wind and then back to normal.  It took a lot of sweeping to get the leaves bagged up and 5 sacks have gone up to the compost heaps.   There would have been a lot more only I don't know where they ended up!   And if anyone finds an empty plastic paint bucket, it's one that used to live down on the bottom veg terrace for watering.  Probably half way to Almeria by now after those winds!

So we have been back outside today rotavating, emptying the composts, digging that in and then tidying the individual veg beds.  Broad beans to be planted next week, mostly as a green compost, they'll get dug in to enrich the soil early spring.  Except of course those that we need to keep  for eating,  freezing and next years seeds.

The forecast says possible drizzle this evening so that'll be good for the newly done veg beds as the ground is very, very dry.