working in Tilling

There seems to have been a curious and unusual outbreak of work hereabouts....
voila, the butte St Helene gets attention - and the railway line -

and an orchid is pushing up rather early.


Here is Micheal from Germany, here to help with HelpX who on this slender experience are brilliant, see http://www.helpx.net/ to save me explaining the whole thing

Working hard means we have to play hard... had several jolly evenings, last night being the only one where I remembered to take photos.

The photos are little but can be bigged up by clicking on them if you have a special interest:)
Here are Annie and Pete back in harness, hurrah; Simone and Micheal, ditto, here for the winter; Andree, Pete and Micheal. The last picture shows the tribe leaving Andrees after sampling her digestif. They all went for a late night walk in the pitch dark up the mountain afterwards. I went to bed.