Honeymoon Whitewashing

Off on honeymoon,

Izzy well packed

 Tom Sawyer 

Pale looking when wet

 Dries beautifully

Yeho, a whitewashed cottage !!

Beautiful

Easter week

blackcurrant cuttings in the polytunnel at the mill ready to plant out at Cnoc na nEan

broad beans, spinach and beetroot potted up and sprouting

 A 'brilliant white' front porch ... We will whitewash next week instead

the dresser removed and wall of the parlour painted and ready for shelves

 the jamb window

elevenses [a break from lino archaeology..]

layers of lino and pitch..

la première nuit

pink champagne & daffodils ...

Sunday morning coffee

Hamill attack

an seomra leaba- before..

during..

 & after!

 am tae

scullery - painted and with roof lights

Transformation

I'm just back from fieldwork on Gozo- transformation in my absence!

 the street cleared by Johnny and Dominic on the last Saturday of March

 sparkling floors

seomra leaba cleared out

Daddy Hamill fixing the roof