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The 3 kings came to town! Unlike our Villagarcia kings, these arrived on camels. Also, they didn’t do a tour of the town, just appeared to go up one street. But they were throwing sweets for the children – so…

We have a growing collection of lemons and decided to try preserving them. They are in salt and lemon juice and should ferment into something lemoney but not bitter – we’ll see 🙂 This is our lemon tree at the…

We see quite a lot of pink skies in the morning, but thankfully they don’t seem to the bearers of bad weather, but are quite pretty to look at. They change so quickly though, by the time I’ve gone to…

We saw this big ship being towed into the aluminium plant dock by the two tugs. As I leapt out of the still-moving car to take a photo I am sure that more than one person wondered what I had…

This was in Burela (town to our right). However we also went to a new beach in San Ciprian (mermaid town) – it’s actually two little beaches: This says how the people used to collect seaweed from here to use…

—is among the most unlikely things I think I’d ever expected to hear Ian say. We found that there is a ‘trail of the mills’ which starts on ‘our’ beach. We couldn’t quite work out where it started, as it…

The undercover area between the house and the barn is quite a useful area. It’s full of stuff at the moment, however when we get it clear and sorted it will be quite practical. Here is Ian planting some seeds…

Much was as expected – Mary, Joseph and a few shepherds (one with a real cat sitting on his head which was quite funny… And then we saw this and Ian said – “that looks like that man’s…” And Ian…

While we’ve been taking Daisy for a walk on the beach, we’ve started collecting sea glass, shards of ceramics and other bits and pieces. Ian found an old oar the other day that had got washed up after a storm…

I think we experienced the north easterly wind that we have been warned of. And what a day for the electric company to choose to do work on the electric cables. I was quite surprised to look out of the…