Another superb warm and sunny day. This morning we pored over the house plans with glee and then we took them up to the site and did an approximate mark out and orientation. We put markers where the house plinth will be and then faced it all with the front door facing NNW and the lounge and back of the house facing SSE (this is the natural orientation and will give us sunrise in our bedroom nearly all year and sunset in the French windows of the lounge.
This afternoon we have been olive picking again, it is a very satisfying occupation. Whilst we are picking and climbing the trees, we are pruning all the over growth inside the trees to allow light to get to the centre. It’s great fun being up in the trees. The cats come up into the trees, to say hola to me, and to show how intrepid they are now in wild Spain. They stay down there with us until it’s time to come back to the caravan for tea. It was nearly six o’clock when the light started going and it started to get chilly. We have now completed two trees and have pruned and started to pick on the third tree. I guestimate that we have about twelve kg of olives so far.
BTW our hands are lovely and soft with all the olive oil on them, last week we had hands like brickies.
Wasn’t it a shame that Emma Bunting went out of SCD last night, however I didn’t vote so I can’t complain. I just thought that she did a lot better than either of the remaining men, hey ho.