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Manuel is starting on the roof tomorrow. He said 8 o clock, but not sure whether that’s with or without the clock change. He came round on Friday and pointed out how the roof of my workshop is now bowing…

I am hoping to start a small business on Etsy selling spinning batts. These are batts of fibre that have been carded through a drum carder. Here are two of my test ones. When my workshop is reroofed, I will…

One of the most interesting things about some of the freelance writing that I do is the wide variety of subjects I get to write on. Out of the 23 articles that I’ve had this month, the subjects have been…

I’ve just come back from the supermarket and I understand enough to know that the main topic of conversation was asparagus. It is slow this year. Which, Ian and I both know as we’ve been out a few times looking…

The weather forecast showed snow today. Ha! we said, how unlikely is that? Well, not very is the answer (I think I have my double negatives right there), as we woke up this morning to snow. By this time last…

Ian kindly hit me on the head yesterday. He’d seen a mosquito. Much to my surprise there really was a mosquito. I think the lump on my head was from the mosquito bite, not Ian’s trying to swat it. This…

I have a wonderful new game that the pups and I are enjoying at the moment. They have got used to the fact that when we shut the door to the back room (kitchen-to-be), they can run back through the…

In case you wondered why I finished my last blog post so hastily, it was because Ian was hovering as we’d agree to go for a walk. The sun was – and indeed still is – shining, but the weather…

Yesterday we had amazing high winds. No rain, but very strong winds. We’d missed the ‘don’t go out unless you need to’ warnings and headed off to Azuaga to the supermarket and then had a picnic under a tree. We…