Month July 2024

Amethyst?

Well, I don’t know! It definately is a type of quartz, I think, and I can’t imagine what else it would be. It’s too big to put in the tumbler, but I’d be quite interested to polish part of it…

Clearing the garden

Ian has started clearing the corner of the garden which we’ve been using for garden waste and has been very overgrown. If I was stood looking out with my back to the front door, this is the corner of the…

Family of boars!

This is where they were a nano second before I had my phone ready and camera on ☝️ (it’s not a very good pic as it was still quite dark) I saw a boar cross the road, and unlike the…

Pebble Beach

We went to collect some more pebbles for tumbling. We didn’t go to the beach we went to last time as it’s by os Catedral beach, which gets very busy in the summer. So instead we went to a pebble…

Not the best bench in the world…

This is a more humble bench, and while it may not proclaim itself the Best Bench in the World – it was certainly worth a visit 🙂 After going to San Cibrao shopping, we turned left and went to somewhere…