Month April 2026

We often sit in front of the white building for a picnic. However yesterday we took a turning before that and found there is a little beach just round the corner. Which was a perfect place for a picnic! It…

The flowers are still flowering. They are really interesting, new petals keep popping up and then they sort of die off falling over to the back so it’s a bit like a fan. The orange petals and purple ‘tongue’ keep…

The lemon tree was due a bit of a haircut. It was in quite a bad way when we moved here and then got lovely and leafy – and this last year it produced a lot of lemons but had…

I was a little suprised to see what looked like a walking rotten potato (sorry to the toad but that is what he looked like!) making his way across the garden. On closer inspection it transpired that it was not…

Ian found a great new picnic spot! It’s a bench just down the road from an old monestary – which is also the site of an old castro. I think I am familiar enough now with the old stone-age castros…

We’ve been thinking about a pond. I really liked the pond at Great Elm and would have liked a pond in Villagarcia, but it would have been impractical. So we’ve been talking about putting a pond in somewhere – but…