End of April

It's been a strange end to the month,  we had some really lovely hot and sunny weather earlier when we started to clean and paint the pool, plant lots of seeds, prepare land for planting up and then the April showers started.   The temperature went from mid 20's to mid teens,  sunshine and showers for  what seems like days on end - and more drizzle forecast for the next 48 hours.

During the sunny spells I have planted out a second round of seeds,  beetroot, kohlrabi, 2 varieties of carrots, more chillis and peppers as the first ones haven't appeared for some reason, all the pepper seeds are in as the end date on the packet is this June and there seems little point in hanging on to the few that are left.  Then when the showers come I don't need to go out and water, so that saves some time.

I've transplanted the lettuces - you know how the packet says 'sow thinly' well, that's what I did - or so I thought - but I have transplanted almost 150!!  We weren't planning on pulling them for eating, only planned on cutting the leaves so the lettuce would keep on growing and we'd have a ready supply but with that amount we can have one a day and that will see us through the summer.  I bought 2 packets, one a salad mix of red and green lollo rosso and the other says they are iceberg but so far they don't look like the iceberg in the supermarket.  And there are more seeds if we should need any more!

We had old friends here on Tuesday and new friends on Wednesday - I don't mean old as in age but friends we've known for a few years.  And the new friends are people who own a house locally but we'd not met before.  Cold drinks and tapas on the terrace - thank heavens for jars of olives and capers!  Plus a bowl of chilli and garlic bread - it's good to keep a stock of extras in the freezer for quick meals.

And then it was Friday.  I'd planned my day so first off was a quick trip to Cadiar to the post office and then home.   I thought I'd come and go, weed a bit, pick some beans, watch the wedding, but it drizzled and drizzled so I just stayed in and watched the lot.