An 18th century greenhouse...

Update... my face masks have just been delivered so I will start a series of masks; maybe with hats tomorrow. Masks are new to us. Humour me...
Today started wet then began to brighten a bit so I thought I’d toddle off to Candie Gardens to take a photograph of their very early greenhouse; probably the first in Guernsey. Then I heard that we have a media briefing at lunchtime and decided that would cut into my study time or putting it more honestly, gave me an excuse for laziness. 
The excitement about study time is as a result of yesterday receiving a mock exam paper which sent me spinning into panic mode. Apart from learning stuff I need to print and laminate all my photographs etc that I will show on my assessed walk and my presentation of “The day of my birth” and sort these strictly in order so I don’t paper shuffle on the walk. 
The walks are scheduled to start on 6 March but will we be out of lockdown by then? Lots of rumours flying around; all claiming to be true because “somebody on Facebook said so”! 
And today’s little bit of Guernsey history?
Peter Mourant
The reflection that whereas the seventh letter of the alphabet stands for Guernsey, it also stands for “greenhouse”, emphasises an economic fact of life of prolonged applicability to the island which derived originally from the initiative of Peter Mourant. This father of modern Guernsey horticulture had Candie House (now the Priaulx Library) built in 1780, establishing an ornamental pleasant in what is now called the Upper Candie Gardens and growing fruit and vegetables in what is now known as the Lower Gardens.the better to grow his grapes and pineapples, Mourant in 1793 erected in the Lower Gardens the first glasshouses ever seen in Guernsey; the structures which survive to this day. His success produced an ever increasing number of imitators and thus ultimately precipitated the proliferation of cultivation under glass which is now so dominant a feature of the island’s ‘growing’ industry.
Mourant eventually sold Candie House to Jonathan Priaulx, who re-sold it to his brother Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx, the founder of the present library.

This was written by L James Marr in 1984. The growing industry has largely been consigned to history. Rather than greenhouses full of ripening tomatoes there are so many derelict vineries returning to nature scattered around the island.
Osmond Priaulx who founded the Priaulx Library and left it to the people of Guernsey was the man who is quoted as saying “ I want nothing called after my name, and I will give nothing to those who already have much... if the money be not properly administered, better it had been thrown in the sea.”