Month August 2026

And talking of sparkley things…

Here’s Daisy in full sparkle out on her walk. The mornings are getting noticeably darker now – but Daisy brightens them up. Ian hums ¡Rocking around the Christmas Tree’ when he sees Daisy in her lights! And here’s Millie stood…

Fiesta Lights

Our fiesta lights appeared at the weekend. The coincide oddly with the Fiesta of the Fried Egg, but not for the Mermaid fiesta which was the week before. I think there’s a couple of other fiestas and celebrations around this…

Eclipse!

We were fortunate to live right in the middle of the total eclipse path! The sun goes behind the hill behind us at about 20 past 8, so if we wanted to see the eclipse we had to go to…

Wild Fires

This time last year there were big wild fires that were to the south of us and the smoke was so dense that the sun turned red and it looked like an artificial red dot stuck in the sky. The…

On this day…

Yesterday we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. Wow! We celebrated with a frozen pizza and bottle of Extremaduran Cava. No cheese feast this year. Cheese is so reasonably priced here that cheese feasts are now pretty much an every day…

More Hedge!

Well more hedge, less weeds! Ian has been doing more clearing of the hedge. There were a LOT of weeds – and some of the hedge is a little sparse. We’ll wait for a while and see what grows back…