As usual we were still working on the final touches until 5 minutes before their arrival. Some things never change.
The pool area is as finished as it is going to be for this year. The roof was finished on Friday afternoon, and Saturday was the day for tidying up all the building rubbish. We need to finish the interior of the pool house but having run out of time we have decided to leave it until the autumn. The team arrived to render the pool house & pool walls on the first of March and we were not quite ready for them so the whole month of March was spent trying to keep one step ahead. It is now finished and we are really pleased with it,
We managed to finish the garden at the end of the pool area. It now just needs some sunshine for it to grow ( and covering with gravel, but after moving 10 tonnes of topsoil by hand we are waiting to recover before attacking this little job).
The weather in March was every bit as good as February but April has been cool and showery. The vegetable garden has been dug over and lettuce and spring onions are growing away quite happily but we are waiting for the warmer weather, which has been promised for next week, before planting the tomatoes, courgettes and peppers. All the summer flowering seeds I sowed have been potted on and are ready to be planted out too. The shrubs and trees have been full of blossom and the Wisteria around Villa Lucques has been stunning.
We now have electricity connected fully in our house as well as the solar panels. It's quite a novelty to have the kettle and the toaster on at the same time. The underfloor heating has also been connected and tested and all works well. Hopefully we won't need it until at least December.
I have been banned from making new lists until the end of the summer - we are supposed to be taking things a little easier over the summer months - I do have a mental list though and it's getting longer every day.
