Monday 26th July 2021Blog from The Edge - 4

Here is Alison's latest blog, below, about our move to Madeira. We're making progress with the garden, house, and becoming Maderians - with a little help from our neighbours.

Light, a Lesson and a Secret Cave

Well, we’ve got a fledgling orchard!! 😆 We now have 17 trees and we’re waiting for 2 mango trees. September is the best time to plant these, seemingly.

A lesson (and yet another gift ) has come from Nono, who lives nearby and is doing work for us after his work hours - a great guy, very clever! Nono’s been showing us how to skin and clean the local Dorado fish 🐟. I think I’ll be giving this a miss in the future 😳! It’s far easier eating it at Bar Rio, bbq’d in onion, garlic & parsley - delicioso!

We also have outdoor lights! We had the original lights, that belonged to the house, restored and cleaned, but the switches and electrics still need to be tweaked. The switches don’t correspond with the lights - a bit confusing to say the least!

If you zoom in on the orchard photo, you’ll see on the back wall there is a pile of stones. Jose, our garden helper, started pulling the stones away and there’s a cave buried behind! So we going to excavate it, remove all the stones and make a feature of it. If there’s water there, we can incorporate that somehow too.

Looking forward to a delivery of more plants tomorrow- more on that next week. 😆