Month September 2023

I had to go to the opticians this week, and when Ian picked me up, we took a little detour towards Foz. We looked at one of the beaches, which is the beach where the Normans landed during the Normal…

Ian went to look at houses which I wrote about HERE. He saw what was going to be our new house from the outside and took a photo of the beach and bridge. I mentioned that later that day he…

For Ian’s birthday we went for a look at an area which was very much on our shortlist for houses – and saw the monument to Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down just off the coast. It was very…

We have a little corridor that goes from the living room to downstairs. It had a dark lampshade and was very dingy. I got a cheap paper lampshade and we hung a mirror we’d inherited with the house and it…

We’re still enjoying food from our huerta – while a lot of it is coming to an end now, I can see the peppers and cherry tomatoes are still flowering, so I wonder if that means that more will come…

The car passed its ITV (similar to MOT) for another year. Which was good. We have a small list of things to do, but thankfully nothing we weren’t expectig. We were early so we went to the beach near the…

A while ago, a man we used to talk to when Daisy was playing ball with his dogs, told us about a beach which isn’t too far away which he said was very pretty, being famous for its white sand…

There was a Norman fiesta in Foz last weekend which we went to. As with all fiestas, it was another opportunity for people to dress up – in Norman or not-quite-so-Norman costumes. It was quite fun as they came ashore,…