The tenacity of vines.

You have to admire and love a plant that gets mullered by frost and is not defeated. The second (rather blurry) photo shows the new growth appearing behind the damaged shoot. We all just need to keep our fingers crossed that there is no more frost and that the reds recover like these whites.

Right then we are off to try and manoeuvre a beam weighing over 500kg into the gite. Our wood has arrived and our carpenter arrives this afternoon... about the same time I need to be collecting the cat from the vets and that's an entirely different story, involving a lot of vocabulary that never in my life did I think it would be necessary to learn.