Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

A View Along the Coast

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…

A year ago…

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…

Leslie Howard

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…

$1 lampshade & a brand new boat

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…

From the Huerta (and Wood) to the Table

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…

Another Year…

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…

Caolin Beach

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…

The Day The Normans Came to Town

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,…

Peppers!

Peppers are coming through thick and fast – I wish now we’d labelled them as we don0t know without trying which are the hot ones and which are the sweet ones. They look so much the same! Ian has made…

Mermaid Song

I forgot to post this in the mermaid fiesta post – it’s a song by a local band about Maruxaina, which is the mermaid. This was from a previous year. There are some good arial photos 🙂