Month February 2010

In case you wondered why I finished my last blog post so hastily, it was because Ian was hovering as we’d agree to go for a walk. The sun was – and indeed still is – shining, but the weather…

Yesterday we had amazing high winds. No rain, but very strong winds. We’d missed the ‘don’t go out unless you need to’ warnings and headed off to Azuaga to the supermarket and then had a picnic under a tree. We…

Kate had noticed that a year ago yesterday was the first time we went picking asparagus in 2009 and as the rain had disappeared yesterday afternoon, with occasional flashes of sun, we decided to chance our arm and head out…

Ian and I have been mulling over whether this is the most rain that we’ve seen ever. And then I looked at our blog from last year and saw that we were saying exactly the same thing then – at…

Well, Ian has spent much of this week honing his impression of me falling over in the mud. Patently his memory is as flawed as his acting ability. He has missed totally the cried shout of ‘it’s ok to walk…

We went for a walk yesterday afternoon, returning to find that there was dancing at the nave. This seemed odd, but everything seems a little topsy-turvy this year. Carnival, which I thought was always celebrated before Mardi Gras, this year…

feb_13, originally uploaded by ian_pullen. Ian’s picture yesterday was of one of our cockerels. Why don’t mine look so arty? His most popular photo so far is the one of the toilet. I’m not sure what that says about his…

Ian is thinking about selling postcards, calendars and prints from some of his photos. This is quite exciting. Luckily, there are several places where you can sell photos online. The biggest is Etsy.com which is a large international handmade online…

well, most of it… feb_10_after, originally uploaded by ian_pullen.

We went to the rastro in Badajoz yesterday then nipped across the border to stock up on Vinho Verde, which is a light Portuguese wine that we like. How extravagant to go to another country to get our wine!! It…