Month December 2022

Ship Ahoy!

We saw this big ship being towed into the aluminium plant dock by the two tugs. As I leapt out of the still-moving car to take a photo I am sure that more than one person wondered what I had…

Ian Finds a Mermaid

This was in Burela (town to our right). However we also went to a new beach in San Ciprian (mermaid town) – it’s actually two little beaches: This says how the people used to collect seaweed from here to use…

“We need a pair of waders”

—is among the most unlikely things I think I’d ever expected to hear Ian say. We found that there is a ‘trail of the mills’ which starts on ‘our’ beach. We couldn’t quite work out where it started, as it…

Getting Straight…

The undercover area between the house and the barn is quite a useful area. It’s full of stuff at the moment, however when we get it clear and sorted it will be quite practical. Here is Ian planting some seeds…

A trip to a nativity scene…

Much was as expected – Mary, Joseph and a few shepherds (one with a real cat sitting on his head which was quite funny… And then we saw this and Ian said – “that looks like that man’s…” And Ian…

Beach Combing

While we’ve been taking Daisy for a walk on the beach, we’ve started collecting sea glass, shards of ceramics and other bits and pieces. Ian found an old oar the other day that had got washed up after a storm…

High Wire Act

I think we experienced the north easterly wind that we have been warned of. And what a day for the electric company to choose to do work on the electric cables. I was quite surprised to look out of the…

Fairy Walk

We went to another small town called Xove. In Galego (Galician), Xs are used instead of J, so in Spanish it would be Jove. It’s about 10km away which is a little over 6 miles and we went to do…

Christmas Decorations

Well, that was a surprise! We have Christmas lights outside our house – the only one around. Not sure why we have been graced by the lights – other than there are two posts outside the house so they can…

We have a laundry!

We knew there was something in the red brick building right at the very end of the house, but it was difficult to truly investigate as the nettles and brambles were over knee high and quite painful to walk through.…