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We visited a town called Mondoñedo. It’s somewhere we’ve wanted to go for a while and we were waiting till we had to go that way for something else, but it’s sort of in the wrong direction for all the…

I thought Ian had mysteriously hacked down a clump of lilies by the car – but couldn’t think why he would have done it overnight. When I asked him, he looked at me oddly, obviously wondering why I would think…

We haven’t seen any rabbits since we’ve been here – neither hide nor hare (groan) of one. No bunny tracks, no traffic casualties, not a single thing. Until I saw this one which I think is a pet rabbit and…

Our bird of paradise plant has flowered – and indeed, it does look like a spiky bird. It had got sort of entangled in nasturtiums which have over taken the garden – but when I managed to uncover it, it…

Daisy loves playing ball – she could quite happily run and fetch a ball all day. We sometimes see a dog that has no end of fun with two frisbees so we wondered how Daisy would be, and decided to…

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Dumpling. We knew that the day was coming and were just taking it on a day by day basis. She was still enjoying life, mooching around the bird cages looking for dropped treats,…

We had to go to Burela to pick up a parcel so instead of coming straight back, we went to the little port just outside of the town to have lunch – the one we went to recently and it…

There’s a track that we see off the main road that goes towards the sea that we’ve commented a couple of times that we must take a look at and see where it goes. I did try to have a…

We’re trying something different with the potatoes this year. Last year they got blight and while we managed to salvage quite a few, it wasn’t as many as we’d have liked. So this year we decided to grow them in…