I promised Jade a special Garden edition, quite right too...
The vegetable garden is in fact looking pretty goood...
All is changing here as usual - the only constant is change, and plenty here at the moment - Jade has left, as I mentioned was about to happen, leaving fond memories and a garden in great shape, as well as beautifully ordered and mapped - if I had a scanner I would show you the garden map with the colour-coded-for-rotation vegetables - its a nice art-form.
It just got hot with the Solstice, after a very cool spell, 33C....Came in from work earlier, very thisty... Megan: "Do you want to finish my water daddy?" me: "No thanks, I just drank 5 glasses", Megan: "Dear good lord!"
...and it's been a brilliant time here the last few weeks, with not just André and Kate, from the wild east of Poland,,,, (here with Megan)
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....from the mountains of North Wales....
John was here for 12 days, much relaxed these days having, after 15 years of writing, published his book, the life-story of Mr Andrew Still, who founded Osteopathy at the end of the nineteenth century - a great account of one man's single-minded pursuit of truth in the face of public hostility. It's pretty good, really! (see www.atstill.com)
We alse have had Kaya here, from even wilder east, Estonia - it fact she's still here.... currently painting a beautiful tree-mural on our barbecue-area wall - I would show you a photo but my camera's gone belly-up, so next time for that. Meanwhile, we all had a top day out at Odeceixe beach....
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| John André Kaya |
All this and more!! - Finally, after much technophobic prevarication, installed solar panels and my second-hand bore-hole solar pump, which pumps our house water up from 55m down, to the top tank in so doing taking one humungous pump and a secondary one out of the equation. Pumps 1000l a day, frreee!!! Now I can create funky channels and pools on the hillside to plant little trees... the possibilities are multiplous.
A special happy solstice to our Russian (and Estonian) readers!
Connection and creativity!
Chris xx.
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I enter this blog once every few days, and read this note again and again. We miss you a lot, if I could, i'd be on my way back to this farm. To this home. Thank you for everything, we'll write more in an email soon. Hugs! Andre&Kate
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