GETTING NEARER

So this is nearly it - needs the roof shingles and to be wired up, needs roses over it and a lick of paint inside, needs a party to warm its planks.

Needs the sofa bed then we have another bedroom.

Actually this is, of course, the garden office where R will write her bestseller and make millions. (So she says, but I think, come winter, she will be found on her sofa in the kitchen warmed by the Aga, Apple Mac on her lap.

AN AGA!

Well, yes - it does the cooking, dries the clothes, heats the house and, with a really well insulated new house and a thermostat, uses very little fuel - REALLY!

Oh! And the bottom oven with the door open is good for warming sickly lambs and making meringues.

The path and railing are done as is the area of decking on the right as one looks at it.

The (shed) is quite big - 12ft x 10ft internally and faces up the garden. The pond is on the right.

We have, at last, got a little water back in the stream after the drought - back to the usual summer!

Meanwhile, at the birdfeeders (we have three stations), the young tits and greenfinches are hard at work. There cannot be a fat fledgling in the place.

They are eating the seed faster than I can top the feeders up.

It is raining.

No, the sun is out.

No, it is raining.

Summer is here.