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English Lessons

I am giving English lessons to a young lad around the corner. He is 12 years old and has been studying English for 4 years. Obviously this means that he is now better than me. The difference between possessive adjectives…

InExtremadura

We’ve just relaunched InExtremdaura.com (). It still has one or two little tweaks required, however it is a bit improvement over the original version.

Pics

Princess Guncetta watching us debating whether she needed rescuing and the other pic is us getting ready for a dog trimming session – which is why with the exception of Billy they have all disappeared.

Everything in the Garden is…

…slightly brown and shriveled. I just don’t know how other people have lovely flower filled patios. I see them every day when we go for a walk and we come home and see our brown shriveled leaves. Unless everything is…

Bad Timing

The village has been gearing up for a huge celebration this weekend – one of the residents is being ordained. The party started yesterday and ended today – about now in fact with a huge mass. There are thirty priests…

Summer has arrived

Getting off the plane on Saturday was like stepping into an oven. Seville is the hottest city in Spain and it certainly felt like it. I had another good trip and the plane arrived on time and Ian was there…

New Lens

Ian bought me a macro lens for the camera for my birthday. This is a close up of an otherwise unprepossessing and past-its-best nasturtium flower.

Videos

I noticed that someone has posted some videos of the village onto YouTube.com. Here they are, there’s a bit of a selection:- Notice that you see the back of our house on this one… These are of the Romeria –…

Summer’s Arrived

At long last the summer seems to have arrived – the weather the past week has been lovely and the farmers have started harvesting. The field is starting to get filled with the mounds of grain that we have noticed…