....day 1, already roots showing.....

....day 3 of the garlic sprouting, the roots are doing really well and we now have some green shoots too....I've peeled the outer layers off to make it easier for the new shoots....

....I gotta say tho, as much as I love my little battery powered chainsaw, when it comes to seasoned Oak logs nothing beats a good old fashioned petrol saw....

....then splitting them the really old fashioned way....no better way to spend a sunny Sunday....🌞🪓🪵

...cropped the last of the chillies too....been an amazing crop from just one plant....🎋🌶

....this green and pleasant land....💚

....the old corrugated roofing sheets are damp above my head....they are old, very old....before they were here, they were the roof of the old Whisky Bar for a few years, when we lived north of here, before that they were on a barn roof for thirty years, and when we re-roofed the barn, the roofing sheets were in the scrap pile until I reclaimed them, trimmed the rusty ends off and repurposed them for the Bar roof....when we took them off the barn I noticed holes in them where they had been used previous to this as well, holes from old fixings from a life before the barn roof....so I don't know exactly how old they are, but they are certainly older than me....
The water that fell as rain a few days ago, has been collected and then heated up in buckets on the fire from wood I've scavenged from the hedgerow....I put the hot water in an old bin around the back and a small pump sends it out of the showerhead and cascading over me....the steam makes the roof wet....I'm thinking about all the things that these roof panels have been before they were repurposed again into becoming the roof for my shower....it's probably the best shower I've ever had....

....to keep the dogs off the crops, I've had to make some fences....

the new "veg bed"....😂😂