Sunshade or umbrella?

To propitiate the weather gods, I put up our sunshade yesterday on the lower garden terrace. If it rains then perhaps we will be able to cower under it if needs be. Certainly overnight it had rained hard again but the morning dawned bright and sunny. So much so that youth drove down to the valley for swimming action to be sadly foiled by more rain and general gloom.
Another ex-colleague and his very pregnant wife were due to visit at 3:30 pm but tourism and sightseeing intervened and they arrived closer to 6 pm. Again good to catch up, especially with this pair as he has taken on one of my old roles. Again have to say reinforcing my "I don't miss it attitude" even though one feels guilty for some odd reason saying so.
Plenty eaten and plenty drunk and the courgettes are really back on line now! In the background of this shot, the vegetable connoisseurs will I am sure be able to pick out the potatoes, butternut squash, peppers, aubergines, French beans, coriander, ruby chard, mitsuna and lettuce.