Rain

Much cooler here.  We came home yesterday to a house cold and smelling of holiday cottages; a mixture of dust and old floors and stone and plaster. Trapped summers, hidden in the walls...

Here it has rained all day and it has been gloomy.  The garden has taken advantage again and has run riot, so I will need to get out with the shears and the strimmer.  We had gigantic courgettes becoming marrows; I will roast them for antipasti or might stuff them with rice and peppers.  The tomatoes look hopeful as do the peppers.  And the olive trees (small olive trees) which lost their leaves over the hard winter we had have finally both come back.  I read recently that all olive trees need is silence and sunshine, but perhaps the recent wet weather helped as well!