About Me

We moved out to Portugal to live a frugal but better , simpler and peaceful life, our house is a very basic, semi ruin, up in the hills outside Figueiro Dos Vinhos, where we work our land, enjoy life with each other and our dogs, and hope to make the smallest carbon footprint we can,

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Quick update

This will have to be a real quick post, life has been very busy this last week or so, we have a nice helper call ed Simon, who although quiet is working hard and getting stuff done, Rick and him have cut tons of logs for next year, a van full to top up my barn for now, felled trees to give the orchard more sun, and yesterday made me a seed house, out of scrap wood from the forest and old plastic sacking... its lovely and I forgot to bring the camera with the pictures...
We also had Carnaval last weekend which was great fun.... pics to follow another day too...
Bookings are picking up too, Ive had to turn down two enquiries for April this last week as April is looking good for us, last night I took a August booking and have other enquiries pending too... its all go!
Im looking to start a lot of lanting in about a week, as stuff is really starting to come up now... all our plants from two weeks ago are thriving, even the lettuce, my seedbed stuff is just through the ground too...
On the minus side...
There are bloody caterpillars everywhere... we've burnt four lots this week...
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