This n That..

This upadate is a mix of all the odds and ends I forget to put in sometimes...

First of all I'd like to congratulate our good friends Samantha & Jon on the birth of their second son, born just the other day... all are fit and healthy, well done both.... well Samantha did the hard bit of course...

The weather has been pretty damp again but still pretty mild, well compared to UK it is, Im feeling the chill though, hot water bottle for bed tonight...
Rik is working hard, as usual, he's dug out one of the back walls, just a drainage channel for now, but will improve and enlarge it as we go along, I think its made a big difference already, it rained all day yesterday and we had no water in the cubby at all. Just the back wall the other side now... he's a tad stressed at the moment, to continue his Softball coaching in Portugal he now has to take his qualifications in Portuguese....which although he speaks pretty good nowadays, to take such huge exams in another language is a vast undertaking, and he's worried... nothing I say will make a difference, this is a demon he has to deal with on his own. I just have to be as understanding as possible when he's a grumpy, difficult old sod.... heheheheh nothing new there then... His first one is a three day course on the weekend of 12th December... fingers crossed everyone please. !!!

The garden is still plodding along, the peppers finally stopped a week or so ago, but they are so tall, they sheild the broad beans a little so I left them in in case of frost, the beans are doing fine, hopefully beans to eat early new year. The cabbage is great, we've already started eating some, and have loads more on the way... the newly planted garlic is sprouting and looking good, as are my Xmas /new year spuds, we just have to try to sheild them if it turns frosty...

We've been planting soft fruit bushes, hoping that we can get some soon,