After a good long sleep (which dispelled the worst of yesterday's sinus headache), a domestic day today. which saw me ironing the curtains for the van. They had been washed some months ago, but with an impending camping trip coming up it was time to get them back up at the windows. Before I got properly stuck in, Su brought me a bowl of spicy parsnip soup for lunch - yummy!
Then it was time to start working out the fabric jigsaw - 9 curtains and 9 straps to sort out, as well as various fittings to disassemble to fit them.
At one stage I thought it was turning out a bit like a Christo installation!
Then there was the small matter of fiddly fittings, easily dropped and lost - so far nothing vital has disappeared!
As I was absorbed in this, up the pavement the drain to the road was being repaired.
Bella had patiently sat in the van, on the pavement and finally back in the house while I cursed fixed most of the curtains up - a couple left for tomorrow. When I finally took her out for a walk, saw this unseasonal primula in a newly created flower bed.
An attractive log pile - quite tempting for those of us with wood-burning stoves :-)!
In the fields, this umbellifer was at eye level - some were taller.
The grasses keep on going.
An unusual view of behind umbellifer flowers.
Saw these old boxes on the back of a truck.
Not a scene from a Tarantino movie, but shop dummies on the back of the same truck, along with other ephemera, probably from house clearances.
Elderflowers still blooming.
One for our Canadian readers - purple loosestrife (relative of yellow loosestrife, scourge of the prairies).
Pretty and prolific at the moment - bindweed flowers.
A record for the bike conglomerate - six bikes and one wheel-less frame secured with one chain. Maybe this is the stock for a business?
This day a year ago, we visited Sienna and had a great time wandering around. Could not post any pictures because the internet connection to Volterra was out of action, so I posted a short (and expensive) blog report via 3G on my phone.
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