water

The camera (coucil) workers came the other day and started laying down the pipes for us to be connected to the mains water!  Great excitement as the digger groaned and dug along the track and men in baseball caps popped up through the cistus trying to decide where to go.  It will take a few days ( or even weeks?) to get it up and running but it will be an improvement on the five liter water bottles that we have been using to dribble on a few chosen plants.  Still waiting for the electriciy to be connected...

 My first tulip in the garden/wilderness.
Meanwhile we have been enjoying the rain.  Everything has grown, including the brambles, of course.  We ate our first brocoli and peas.  R's mum has come for a visit and has been cutting back the cistus and weeding and doing pastel sketches of our bit of land.
The potatoes have shot out of the ground.  Hooray!  And there are lots of little figs on the tips of the branches of the fig trees.
And I have started the second swale. :)