Onions.

The last few days have been rather cool with the temperature in the high teens and not managing to reach 20C. 

On a very overcast, windy and dismal looking day, Di decided that a nice warming soup would be the best thing for us.

I am the chief cutting up expert as I have strong wrists and the best knives. What I don't like is when it comes to cutting up the onions. The onions we are using at the moment have a high juice content and as soon as the skin is broken the fumes make the eyes start to water.

Di had this wonderful idea of wearing some goggles to stop the fumes getting in my eyes, the only problem was that the only goggles that we could find quickly were these swimming goggles that grandson number three, Johan, left behind.

They were a little small and I couldn't see through them very well so eventually I found some skiing goggles in the shed, which must have been Jim's.

I know I look like an idiot, no comments please, but they really did work.
By the way, the soup was great.

Update.

 I always seem to be trying to catch up with this blog.  I suppose that events of note are few and far between although we are always doing something.

I should have added a photo of our new car here but as I don't have one that's going to be difficult. It looks very much like the old one but is an updated model with lots of goodies.  Its been for its first service today which only took an hour as its more of a check having only covered 1500kms. It was a free service which made it very enjoyable. Unfortunately Di took me shopping while we waited and it looks as though it could end up being expensive.

I wish I could say that this beautifully restored prime-mover was mine but I'm afraid I can't.  The man leaning on the bonnet is my neighbour across the road. It was his birthday and a friend of his had called round to take him for a ride in his newly restored truck.  Its an International with a very sweet Cummins engine built in the days of no power steering etc.

We were working in the back garden and I heard this lovely low rumble of exhaust and just had to go and investigate. I raced back inside to get my camera and there it was parked over the road.

The front garden retaining wall is finished. Since the last blog I have added three horizontal walls across the garden and finished off down the side of the drive.

It needs some more top soil and we have a good bit of planting out to do but there is little point in doing so until we get some rain.
All the old railway sleepers that I took up have now been sawn into the right size lengths to fit the fire and split. 
They are still very hard and burn well but I think I will still have to buy a load of timber before the end of the season as I haven't been out with the chainsaw this year.