I know you will all be wanting to know but were too afraid to ask about how our market garden coped during our recent sudden visit to Scotland. Well although the plants were without water for a week it was pretty amazing. The tomato plants and the green pepper plants appear to have come through pretty unscathed. The broccoli and lettuce were poorly to say the least. I watered them all and have done so for a few days now. Amazingly it appears that there must have been some life left because they appear to be picking up. A sort of natural selection because before we left they were needing thinned out .... and now they're not!
Today is a beautiful day and its going to be hot. Unfortunately there are very large protests planned and of course it is martial law here so any gatherings of people in public are strictly prohibited. It is very uncertain how the police and military will react to this. They are within their rights to shoot anyone who disobeys this and people plan to disobey it in large numbers. It has beed dubbed the suicide march and some protesters are apparently planning to march in shrouds! We can only hope that some restraint is exercised and the protests are permitted and also that they pass off without bloodshed. One of the marches is from Budaiya where we live right down the Budaiya Highway towards the town centre. We are right on the edge of the village and the march should not come near us. The police still appear to be stationed at the entrance to our compound so that is reassuring.
We decided that we would not play golf this weekend. We will stay put in the villa and get on with some work. I have a bundle of marking that amounts to about half of a tropical rain forest so I will probably make a start on that. There were smaller protests planned for last night and there is nothing on the news or websites that I can find to suggest that anything major took place. Let's hope that I am reporting the same thing after today is over.
D & S
Today is a beautiful day and its going to be hot. Unfortunately there are very large protests planned and of course it is martial law here so any gatherings of people in public are strictly prohibited. It is very uncertain how the police and military will react to this. They are within their rights to shoot anyone who disobeys this and people plan to disobey it in large numbers. It has beed dubbed the suicide march and some protesters are apparently planning to march in shrouds! We can only hope that some restraint is exercised and the protests are permitted and also that they pass off without bloodshed. One of the marches is from Budaiya where we live right down the Budaiya Highway towards the town centre. We are right on the edge of the village and the march should not come near us. The police still appear to be stationed at the entrance to our compound so that is reassuring.
We decided that we would not play golf this weekend. We will stay put in the villa and get on with some work. I have a bundle of marking that amounts to about half of a tropical rain forest so I will probably make a start on that. There were smaller protests planned for last night and there is nothing on the news or websites that I can find to suggest that anything major took place. Let's hope that I am reporting the same thing after today is over.
D & S
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