Phew!

Another scorcher today; 30+, so it's a good thing that we're working inside.

Our plumber, Thierry, finally arrived at 9am with the oil tanks. We were expecting them to be plastic, but, oh no! Plastic inside but metal on the outside.

Everything about our heating seems to be on a massive scale. It's beginning to look more and more like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory. After helping Thierry carry in the tanks (les cuves) I carried on with tiling in the bathroom. Although the tiles are big (45x45cm) it means that you keep getting to the fiddley cutting parts quicker after you've laid about 2 or 3 tiles.

Sue went on a photographic mission this afternoon when she recorded lots of the flowers which are blooming merrily in the vegetable garden. You may wonder why there are flowers in the veg patch, but it's being used as a holding area until the beds start to come on stream. Sue realised that everything was doing so well that they were outgrowing their pots! Our Mayor was supervising some hay cutting near us and he thought that the idea of flowers in with the
vegetables was lovely. Sue didn't spoil things for him by explaining the real reason!

Meanwhile the Silver Birch Copse is a blaze of colour from all sorts of poppies, thanks to our friend Eric.