It is rubbish, being sick

We have been ill all weekend and I'm still not better now and neither is Angela; thankfully Rosie is a whole lot better but still it isn't the best thing to try to keep up with an energetic three year old when everything is aching in your body. Oh well, to the blog.

Rosie sniffs her fake fruits

"Flap flap flap flap!"

Clouds above the washing line

They are quiet, when they're asleep

Angela mowed the lawn

Saturday being Daddy Day I had time with Rosie in the morning and we took Maisie to get her air-conditioning re-gassed in town. She was such a good girl that she was allowed to pick some fake flowers and she chose some tiny mandarins or satsumas. She loves them, and they are in a jar on the dining table on the balcony now. Other things that went on during Saturday was dancing and flying like a fairy and then a lovely picnic on the lawn in the shade which was just great. Everyone slept in the afternoon and when I went down I found Xena and Rosie very well snuggled up. Angela also at some point, but I honestly cannot remember exactly when, mowed the lawn on the ride on mower which was very much needed indeed; the grass grows so fast here.

Pushing the mower along

Trimmed the Tea Trees some

Rosie using the dibber to help plant something

Hoses wrapped on reels

Adaptors for the taps to the hose reels

Angela weeding, Xena ready to pounce

Rosie strums my guitar

Sunday we were all feeling worse but sitting around wasn't an option in the morning. I got the push along mower out and did the end section, which we can't mow with the ride-on yet, and the bits around the trees that also can't be reached, very early in the day as it was forecast rain. It did spit once or twice but that is all. After reaching the end of the power cable I got the tree saw and trimmed the Tea Trees down around the toilet reservoirs as they were getting in the way a lot. Rosie and Angela were also outside and it was a lovely time all together with Rosie helping us both, she helped Angela to plant some more stuff in the raised beds and watched while I dug out a bramble. I then got the hose reels (which Rosie and I had picked up from the shop on Saturday) and wound the hoses onto them to keep them neat and stored out of the sun and also added some short lengths to the taps to connect to them. Angela was working away in the garden all this time planting loads of lovely flowers and edible plants. By the time we stopped we were both exhausted and everyone slept again in the afternoon, me more than most which is unusual. Rosie had some fun playing on my guitar as well but I was in bed for 8pm last night hoping to feel all better for this morning.

A lovely big spider on the shuttering

Bekir and Halil start the day

Halil with his scythe in the orchard

Bekir doing the final straightening

And so to today and, spoilers, neither Angela nor I were better in the slightest. Fortunately Rosie was well enough to go to school which gave us space to collapse all day and try to recover. The men were in working on the foundations on the other end of the orchard but obviously I didn't get many pictures. Suffice to say they made good progress and are already ready for the cement truck to come tomorrow to pour the cement in this section. Halil also got the scythe out and cleared down some more of the orchard overgrowth which was great. When Rosie got home from school I pushed her on the swing for a bit and Rosie was talking about tortoises and then we saw one in the undergrowth by our front wall.

And there it is; I'm going to go collapse into bed again I think; I really could do with being better for tomorrow, and Angela as well as it is a national holiday and Rosie is off school! Scary! Thanks for reading.