Doorway

A blocked doorway between two bedrooms. Was a horrible cobbled together bookshelf. I rather admire my own bodging but find other people’s hard to bear.

There is a 50cm difference between room levels.

I’ve noticed how on hot nights a beautiful cooling breeze rolls down Monte Lupino from the west. Not surprising most of windows are on west side of house. Opening the blocked doorway would allow that breeze into the biggest bedroom. Tempting.

One has to learn to live with this heat. The right clothes, the right hours, constant fiddling with windows and shutters, mosquitoes, scorpions, ants, horseflies. But the roses are blooming again, the hibiscus is out, the plums ripen, the onions and shallots are drying and the solitary peach blushes brighter each day.