Builder’s mate

I didn’t manage much in the green and gardening line today. Unless you count raking strimmings. No, I was up a ladder up on the roof.

Dario came over to replace broken tiles. We have a leak in the guest house and it needed tending to before we launch into new flooring.   And with this very cold hard winter tiles have been a breaking. It’s not the top ones that count – but the ones underneath. And you don’t really know what’s broken unless you lift the lot and have a peek.

Heaps of broken tiles came off and heaps went back on. Hot work in the sun, but luckily I didn’t have to do the worst of the creeping about the roof.

For an encore Dario also replaced a wheelbarrow load of tiles from the roof above the bread oven.

I just had time to do a quick watering of the orchard trees and collect a punnet of strawberries for dessert; and a meal of peas, broad beans, swiss chard and salad.