God Bless You Mate...
Our dear and very special friend Ed came over in May for his annual six week sabbatical.....He never ceases to amaze us, he starts work the moment he arrives and doesn't stop until the day he is leaving.
Projects completed during this visit include a rustic pergola (which you can see in the background of the top photograph) a set of steps, a huerto (vegetable garden) a garden trough, completion of our irrigation system plus much, much more....
The vegetable garden....
the Spanish steps....
the garden trough!
Ed, who (I'm sure won't mind me saying) will be 70 years of age later this month, is not only a 'Master Craftsman' but also super human!
One morning, when the temperatures were in the high thirties, we had to move and stack over two hundred bales of hay! Our close neighbours Sarah and Jim (who we affectionately know as Rosie & Jim) very kindly allowed us the use of their stable for the storage of same. I should point out that I had the easiest task of just transporting the hay to the stable, whereupon Ed had to stack it, to height of probably 12-15 feet.
Well, by the time we had finished I had managed to get through 3 shirts, all of which were sodden with sweat and I was absolutely exhausted, whereas Ed, who had no change of clothing, looked like he had just walked off a photo-shoot session at Vogue magazine!
The infamous 200 plus bales of hay!!
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