Roque terrace progress.

This last week has been such fantastic weather that we took advantage of the fine spell and we both got stuck into sorting out the Roque gite terrace at the front of our property. All the new timber was delivered on Tuesday, then on Wednesday we stripped off the old floor boards (above) which revealed how much the terrace was in need of refurbishment!

Over the next couple of days we replaced the main joists, followed by adding extra joists between the original ones for extra support (which was the main real problem with the original structure, apart from the rotten wood!).
After a coat of wood protector the terrace base is now ready for the next phase (below), the laying of the terrace floor boards which will have to wait a while as the nice weather has left us for a while. More pictures to follow shortly, we hope!

On display now!

What a week it's been weather wise, everything in the garden has wondered what has hit them, daytime temperatures in the mid twenties has brought the colour out everywhere and the easiest way to demonstrate this is to put on the blog what Philippa collected and arranged using the flowers that are out at the moment.
It's also looking like the major pruning/thinning out of the wisteria on the front of the house has worked , there's hundreds of buds waiting to flower so once they are out I'll post them on the blog also!

Sun lover!

Just found this little fellow in the Haybarn Gite whilst getting it ready for our new guests who are arriving from the UK tomorrow, after being in the gite all night it was a bit too cold so managed to move him or her into the sun. It only took about 15 minutes until it flew off, fully recovered!
It looks like our arrivals are going to have a great week as the temperatures are going to be in the twentys all week, except at night of course!