Month August 2009

Blackie crowed today – so that means three boys and two girls. Despite what it looks like, we took the news well and I wasn’t trying to strangle him.

We went to the market yesterday to look for bedding and towels. We know the chap with the market stall and he said that now was the time for beach towels and not duvet covers etc, however if we went…

Well, we spent quite a while looking through our new recipe book yesterday. I had to double check a couple of times to make sure we hadn’t picked up a spell book. There are recipes for lizard stew, that read…

We have had a good day today. Nothing to do with the 7 pairs of cotton trousers that I bought for 2 euros each – which amazingly ALL fit me – and nothing to do with the half price croc-alikes…

The vet came round today to give the dogs their rabies shots. This was interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, we hadn’t realized that we are supposed to carry their passports when ever we are out with them. This…

It was with rising hysteria that I found another snake on the floor of the bedroom. Admittedly this new one was substantially smaller – however I did not necessarily take this as a good sign as it obviously meant that…

Phewey, it is so hot at the moment. It’s difficult to know what to do. Last week I was getting up at 5 in the morning to work, as during the afternoon it is really too hot to do anything.…

In the cause of journalistic clarity, I must clarify that the tomatoes that I referred to in an earlier post were not ours – Ian got them from Mike. Our harvest so far consists of one tomato, one festering pepper…

I forget to say that I am writing some ‘how to dye’ articles for a man who’s branching out his grout and cement dye business to include fabric and yarn dyes. He wanted permission to reprint some articles I already…

This is ’emigre’ week, when traditionally, a series of events have been put on for people who return to the village for August (perhaps it is felt that people who have moved to Barcelona, Madrid etc, need an exhibition of…