Month December 2006

Boxing Day – not here…

Christmas is more focussed around Christmas Eve and Christmas Day itself appeared to be a normal ‘day after’. The Spanish have a big family feast on Christmas Eve which seemed to involve eating most parts of a pig and platters…

Ian to the rescue

A game of playing on top of the well post resulted in Ian having to rescue the kittens as they were unable to clamber down. I don’t know if you can zoom in on these pics however take a look…

Best wishes for…

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular…

Orange tree

Pre-broken ankle I was taking pictures of our orange tree monthly to see how the oranges developed. Good job I was looking at oranges and not lemons as we only have three lemons. Anyway – here is our orange tree…

Feliz Navidad

Well Christmas is nearly upon us and the fridge is full of Dia 3 for 2 cava. Excellent! One challenge that we are facing is how to cook our traditional Xmas day lunch of Lentil Wellington and all the trimmings.…

New olympic event

Should charades ever become an Olympic event then the British Olympic Committee need look no further than the British abroad. Well let’s put a caveat on that – I obviously don’t mean those at either end of the language spectrum;…

Jumble Sale

We went to a jumble sale yesterday – I was so excited the night before I could hardly sleep! It was in Elvas in Portugal and in aid of the British cemetery there. More info here . We had…