Friday, 4 June 2021

Builders

Hemen and his dad are here today, and have already dug the foundations for the wall where the new window will be.  They are well on the way to opening up the doorway to the hall, so you can imagine the sound effects: drills, angle grinders, much hammering and occasional Kurdish dialogue.

Just like the June day in 2008 when work started on the conservatory, it has poured with rain for much of the day, so I’m spared watering duties.  We got the last of the beans and rudbeckias planted yesterday, so they’ll be appreciating the rain.  Our gardening is somewhat random and whimsical: flowering shrubs cheek by jowl with leeks; rudbeckias and tagetes jostling with French beans. I also planted some flag irises yesterday afternoon.  They’re a subject I liked in the garden in Scotland, so I hope they’ll do well here too.  Next to the runner beans.

We had a caprese salad for lunch yesterday, with spinach and rocket from one of the raised beds.  The spuds are growing fast, and I’ll have to get compost for them tomorrow.  And we still appear to have three carrots.

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