There was a Viking festival in a town just the other side of Viviero (pooping nativity scene town) and we went to watch the Vikings arrive – and found ourselves watching a re-enactment which was excellent. I’m not sure of…
is why we initially staked our tomatoes with tiny stakes – this is our previous attempt at tomato growing and they didn’t get much taller than my knees! And why we have had to stake and restake our tomatoes several…
I think we may know this as a bird’s house gourd? But here they are called calabaza peregino which is ‘Pilgrim’s Gourd’ and pilgrims taking the camino Santiago would use them to carry water. I’m not sure what we’ll do…
We went to a medieval fiesta this weekend. I couldn’t make up my mind whether we were on the set of Blackadder or a scene from Midsomer Murders where someone gets killed by a javelin (don’t know if that has…
A funny shaped radish 🙂 When not laughing uproariously at funny shaped vegetables, I’ve been making seaglass buttons. I’m practicing on bits of rough seaglass, which is just as well as it’s surprisingly difficult! I need to get the holes…
Ian is clearing the earth which is on top of what was a threshing circle (square). It will make a very nice patio area. Unfortunately, we can’t use the door which you can see at the side of the barn,…
We planned to walk over to the headland for a picnic tea. We hadn’t planned, however, for the growth of super-ferns. And these were the small ones, we completely disappeared later on! So while we did get to the end…
Ian has put up another new fence at the back of the house. Although we don’t use this door at the moment, the plan is that we will. This door opens into the passageway that runs to the front of…
We haven’t been out very much recently as with work, the garden, Ian working on the fence… it’s been quite busy. However yesterday we decided to take Daisy for a walk by the river as she can’t go on the…