Hot Hot Hot!

You'll be pleased to hear I toasted the royal couple by bringing out my old yellow shorts. Not a cloud here all weekend and more wall-to-wall sunshine forecast this week. I guess we will pay once the Scottish "summer" kicks in. Got loads done these past two long weekends and the lure of part-time working grows ever stronger. We now have a new promontory created by our building contractor from an area which was probably the old farm tip - rubble, scrap metal, timber, that sort of thing - really should have got an environmental consultant in to look at it but buried instead. Capping followed by phytoremediation, I think you'd call it. This area provides a great new viewpoint over the veg plot, orchard and slope. We had previously written it off as unusable but it now looks a good place for the polytunnel. You'll see the tall peas are ready to be wedded to their supports, potatoes are earthed up against the run of frosts while celeriac is sheltering in that fleece tunnel. Fruit garden is watered and mulched in anticipation of further drought. The house foundations are complete and we now await the joiners scheduled to arrive in about three weeks. That's me, what have you all been doing?