Bird of Paradise Plant

Our bird of paradise plant has flowered – and indeed, it does look like a spiky bird. It had got sort of entangled in nasturtiums which have over taken the garden – but when I managed to uncover it, it…

Our bird of paradise plant has flowered – and indeed, it does look like a spiky bird. It had got sort of entangled in nasturtiums which have over taken the garden – but when I managed to uncover it, it…

Daisy loves playing ball – she could quite happily run and fetch a ball all day. We sometimes see a dog that has no end of fun with two frisbees so we wondered how Daisy would be, and decided to…

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Dumpling. We knew that the day was coming and were just taking it on a day by day basis. She was still enjoying life, mooching around the bird cages looking for dropped treats,…

We had to go to Burela to pick up a parcel so instead of coming straight back, we went to the little port just outside of the town to have lunch – the one we went to recently and it…

There’s a track that we see off the main road that goes towards the sea that we’ve commented a couple of times that we must take a look at and see where it goes. I did try to have a…
We’re very fortunate that which ever direction we go in, there’s somewhere nice to stop for lunch. One of our favourites is on the other side of the river in San Cibrao in the ruins of the old fish processing…