Month December 2009

This is the time of year when we think back to our journey here. So far we’ve been remembering sleeping in our van in temperatures of minus 5, getting lost in north Spain and feeling a little shell-shocked on arrival.…

Well, we had a very good Christmas – a wet one – but nice all the same. In fact it has rained solidly for about 2 weeks now. The funny thing is, it is actually warm. Today it is already…

I think Antonio thinks we’re a little odd. Several reasons, one being the fact that Ian emails me photos of the doors. Antonio assumed I was away, and was a little bemused to find that I was only in my…

Antonio has just popped in to return the doors that he removed last week. However they’re looking a bit different. Kate hasn’t seen them as she’s in her workshop with the cats and the dogs so this post is as…

We survived this morning’s craft session with 4 eight year olds. They made chocolate things (they were supposed to be truffles but looked more like something a reindeer might have left behind), a Christmas monster, a clothes peg angel, Christmas…

I see Kate has mentioned that we finally found a mirror for the shower room. We’ve been looking everywhere that we’ve been for the past 6 months or so but hadn’t seen anything that seemed suitable. It needed to fit…

We’ve had our fire going in the back room now for 4 days, and are wondering how we ever lived without it. We had our new doors in situ for about 2 hours and wondered how we ever lived without…

Since we’ve stepped up our activity on FreeNeedle etc, we’ve been looking more closely at what makes things tick. Guess what the second most popular thing is that people search for on FreeNeedle at the moment…?? It’s ‘owl’. So apparently…

Last Sunday we went for a walk and commented on some olive trees that we saw with tiny olives. We were musing as to whether these were a special type of olive. However it transpires that they are normal olives…

We’ve had the pleasure, over the last couple of nights, of children pushing our front door. Because we have no internal doors, not even the temporary ones to which we had grown most fond, it is very easy to get…