Peekaboo

Zucchini seedlings are popping up out of the soil in the seed-raising area on the shelf in the truck. It is so good to see them appearing like magic. Soon I will take them down to grow in better light under a polycloche inside the tunnel for a few weeks. Eventually - once they have eight leaves or so - they will be planted out into the raised bed where they will bear fruit in summer.

It has been a day of some good and some weird news.

My sister in law who was diagnosed with bone cancer a few months ago has completed a course of (unpleasant) treatment which has done what the oncologists hoped it would. The cancer has been halted and she is out of pain. While she will remain on special medication and the cancer cannot be eradicated, she can get on with life again. There is huge relief all round.

The weird news is that according to a local real estate agent, I own 0.5ha of vacant land elsewhere in the village. Am I interested in selling it? 

I am bamboozled by this information because as far as I know I own just the 0.44ha that makes up Chez Mima. Apparently the Council land information database has my name as owner, yet I have never bought it, and have never paid rates on it. How can this possibly be?

I am currently waiting for the real estate agent to turn up in person to show me the information that he is privy to, and to which there is no public access, to confirm that it is actually my name attached to the land. 

I smell a rat (to use another animal idiom).