Month June 2008

The village has been gearing up for a huge celebration this weekend – one of the residents is being ordained. The party started yesterday and ended today – about now in fact with a huge mass. There are thirty priests…

Getting off the plane on Saturday was like stepping into an oven. Seville is the hottest city in Spain and it certainly felt like it. I had another good trip and the plane arrived on time and Ian was there…

Ian bought me a macro lens for the camera for my birthday. This is a close up of an otherwise unprepossessing and past-its-best nasturtium flower.

I noticed that someone has posted some videos of the village onto YouTube.com. Here they are, there’s a bit of a selection:- Notice that you see the back of our house on this one… These are of the Romeria –…

At long last the summer seems to have arrived – the weather the past week has been lovely and the farmers have started harvesting. The field is starting to get filled with the mounds of grain that we have noticed…

Well, I won’t get boring about the weather, but it has been exceptionally wet for this time of year. Last year we were struggling to keep our plants from frying, this year they are all suffering from the plant equivalent…