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One of the benefits of old woodwormy doors is we know they are going to be unrepairable, so there’s no reason not to cut holes in them to make dog doors! This time last year, we didn’t have a fence…

A mirror arrived outside our house on Friday. I’m not sure if it’s so we can see if anything is coming round the corner or whether things coming round the corner can see us. It’s a bit of a blind…

We’ve picked more peppers! There are still more growing, but I think they are coming to an end. And I picked some more gourds, I think we have 6 or 7 that are left on the vine which haven’t started…

We’ve had two storms which were back-to-back. Lot of winds, lots of waves and lots of rain! The wind was coming towards the front of the house which blew the rain under the broken tiles on the roof, so it…

Hopefully this wasn’t too much of a warning for the poor sailors! There were strong waves last week and it washed in a lot of seaweed. Apparently this used to be a good thing as it was fed to cows.…

Ian has finished sanding down our old pew and painting it with outdoor paint. The evential aim is to cut it in two and put it in the top part of the garden, but for now we just wanted it…

We had a big storm at the weekend. There were high winds, high waves and lots of rain (which is actually a good thing – our well water supply has dried up so we are hoping that the rain will…

We decided to go chestnut scrumping and have seen a few trees around us and the man who comes to tend his huerta occasionally opposite told us there there are some good trees. We took a big rucksack to fill…

Well, this is a funny thing… I was reading in the news that there were studies going on about replacing eucuplytus plantation with avacado plantations. The eucuplytus are not universally loved, and have been the cause of many of the…

We went to Burela on Saturday and thought we’d go for a swim at Marosa beach, which is a surfing beach. We have been swimming there before and it was very nice – but that was before it got closed…