Easter
So this would normally be the start of the Easter parades for Semana Santa and for the second year they have been cancelled. I’m not sure if they’ve been cancelled throughout Spain, but they have here. We still have our…
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One Year On…
So… we’re a year on from our when words like ‘pandemic’, ‘border closure’, ‘mutant strains’ and ‘lockdown’ became a normal part of our vocabulary. Here’s my recollection of the year interspersed with snapshots of Ian and my chats which…
Emma
Emma died last Friday night. I don’t know if she was in hospital or at home, but I do know that Ed was with her and holding her hand till the end. He emailed and said that Emma ‘just slipped…
And the winner of the messiest member of the household is…
Despite close competition, the lovebirds are most definitely the messiest members of the household. When their size is factored in, they are probably the messiest creatures in Spain! They strew debris with gay abandon around their cage. It doesn’t help…
A covid carnival (and the first asparagus)
Normally there would have been big carnival parades this weekend, however they didn’t happen this year. There was a covid-safe carnival celebration in the village on Monday, but I think it just involved people in their costumes all stood 2…
Month 11 – life nearly one year into a pandemic
So now we’re nearly a year into life with the virus and the new normal has started to feel decidedly, er, normal! The situation has been improving – which is good news. Spain has kept schools and businesses open since…
Month 10
It’s just over 10 months since the pandemic hit Spain with a wallop. I think this time last year we were beginning to hear the first rumblings of a new ‘virus’, but given that we (at the time) didn’t really…
Snow!
We were at the back end of storm Filomena which resulted in the heaviest snowfalls in Madrid for 150 years with many roads blocked and lots of building damage. We had a bit, but not a huge amount. There was…
Been a long time…
Well, what a long time since my last blog post. That one was titled ‘Bobbins gets the all clear-ish’ and it was very much ‘ish’. She came home and we let her loose around the house, and she promptly became…
Bobbins gets the all clear-ish
Bobbins went to the vet this morning and after a few days of steadily moving in the right direction without any regressing, the vet has said she’s ok. So fingers crossed that that will be that now. What a long…