Saturday - 21 March to Saturday 28 March 2026 We have settled into a familiar setting. Plenty of firewood for the open fire as the nights and mornings are 3-8C but the days are 18-21C and clear blue skies. Off to the market on Saturdays for fruit and vegetables, artisan bread, fresh fish and a rabbit. Four days in a row of wonderful weather. Almost able to sunbake on the terrace. Our jobs have been focussed on chain sawing the cordage wood into small lengths, splitting some of the larger and older logs, poisoning some weeds and training the honeysuckle to fill in the gaps on the fence. This is followed by a walk around the local roads in time for the 5.30 GnT. It is cold enough then for an open fire in the living room and again in the morning for a couple of hours. We are now playing with the complicated German boiler to see if we can get the house radiators to work. Success after Lady P’s persistence. Cooking has been wonderful with all the produce from the market and we have...
