Mystery Solved!
The hanging bottles are some sort of insect catcher! So, I don’t know whether these are organic trees where they aren’t spraying them or trees with problems with a certain type of insect or something else – but what ever…
Month March 2022
Hanging Bottles and Squawking Hoopoe
When we were out asparagussing we saw one olive grove with hanging bottle in the trees. I guess about one third of the trees had these bottles with what appeared to be clear liquid in them. I’ve been wondering why…
It’s that time of year again…
Asparagus season! Or, as Daisy would put it, the time of year when a perfectly good walk full of ball throwing opportunities is ruined by us looking for little green twiggy things. It hasn’t been a great start, but the…
Red sky in the morning, afternoon, evening, night…
We were commenting yesterday on the strange color of the sky. It was a yellowy orange color and it is the same today. The orange color was dust from the sahara. It rained a bit, but not enough to…
Ludvig flying to Ian
It’s actually quite difficult to get a good video of ludvig flying. I do have a lot of videos of Ian holding his arm out. I either get ludvig taking off or just landing as in the second vid!
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition…
We had to go to a council office in Llerena to get our ‘digital certificate’ which allows us to do more things online (including accessing our medical records on the health service portal). The office was pretty impressive and on…
Poor Wilbur
I’m not sure how this happened other than Daisy going in stealth mode over the top of the sofa and landing on poor Wilbs. They both refused to move – dog in a manger style – so as not to…