A new month

I have been to England and back since I last wrote here.

And we have new a chicken and cockeral. R saw them in the flea market in Sao Luis and we had to get them (guilty conscience?). They are lovely, polite little chickens and now most of them are laying so we are rich in eggs. The colour of the yolks are deep orange.

We have been working on another water tank, lower down the hill. In the last couple of days we have been laying concrete foundations. Hopefully, we will soon put up the walls. It will be a kind of ferro cement construction. It's going to be muxh bigger than the 'elephant' we built last year.

R's mother is visiting and she has been doing brilliant work on the flower borders and clearing brambles from a fig tree. It's great to get help with that kind of work.

We have just received three huge sacks of sheep's wool and I have begun making roof insulation by stuffing it into feed sacks and stapling them to the rafters. I think it looks very neat and should work a treat. The sheepy smell will soon dissipate (we hope!)

We are eating beans, peas, brocolli, spinache, leeks, onions and carrots from the garden. I am very pleased about that. The taste of fresh vege is so good.