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May-July 2003
really hot and sunny, garden turns into a jungle, tomatoes towering above Thai basil, sweet basil, various thymes and marjoram by the kitchen door... Not much work done on the house though - just a brief burst of action in May:
 
 
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| In a flurry of activity the kitchen is destroyed. All we left was the sink. | |
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| The house from the garden....note the forge in the foreground! P is building a new gas forge now. | My summer patio - fuchsias, verbena, nemesia, pansies... |
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| The patio, for relaxing on a summer evening....heater on full blast. | The patio in July - lobelia, black (really really black) pansies, antirrhinum ... |
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| My bird table. You probably think I'm obsessed with my patio, but it's the only 'finished' area of the house, so we can come out and relax here any evening without being surrounded by evidence of our own inaction. | Another significant event: P acquires an anvil finally. Very hard to find: his US counterparts advised going to 'any old scrap metal or manufacturing scrap yard' - like we have many of those left here. But this is a thing of beauty. Weight: 150kg. Do not try to lift unaided. |
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Left: my adopted little owl, Skitter. He's very nervous (unlike the other little owls which are highly aggressive little so -and - so's) but I managed to capture him on a branch. I think. They're all kind of similar. Height: same as a pint glass. |
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