…slightly brown and shriveled.
I just don’t know how other people have lovely flower filled patios. I see them every day when we go for a walk and we come home and see our brown shriveled leaves. Unless everything is watered three times a day the leaves all fall off! I have spent ages nurturing a pot of poppies and one had a couple of petals and the rest gave up before flowering.
I’ve given up on our melons and am about to give up on the courgettes – although this was largely due to me asking Ian how should we prepare the courgettes and Ian said ‘with a microscope’! On the plus side, the fig cuttings I took earlier in the year seem to be taking and we repotted our aloe vera and this is appears to be doing well. I think, however, our planing of an aloe vera is regarded a little like we would someone planting a thistle in a pot. I do have some nasturtiums that I bought in Swanage and these are looking great.
Our peach tree is doing well, and we’ve probably ended up with a dozen or so peaches, and they are all looking good. I was a little disappointed that all the leaves fell off our new rose – however it does seem to be growing again. The peach tree lost all of its leaves and it has over doubled in size since then so hopefully the rose will be fine.
Mind you, we are buying wonderful veg at the moment for just a few centimos, so there doesn’t seem to be much point in growing our own.
We went to the vet tonight as Henry has been suffering with a bad ear. It transpires that he had a sharp end of grass embedded in his ear so no wonder it was painful. He has drops and antibiotics. The vet told us to keep their fur short during the summer because of these nasty pieces of grass.
The heat wave is now over – thank goodness. This part of Spain was on ‘orange alert’. I think that this system is quite new and follows the heatwave of 2003. The temperature was caused by hot winds coming over from Africa and it was the bottom left bit of Spain that was most effected. The weather is now nice – we have to come in in the afternoon, but the mornings are great. I went out for a walk one evening and people have started pulling their chairs out onto the street again. I actually walked past one family who had a settee in the road, with their neighbours sat on one on the other side.
What else has been happening. Oh yes, there was a football match…..