Festive Light
Our festive street light appeared a couple of days ago! We’ve had a different one each year so far. This is our first coloured one! I’m not sure how long it will stay up for – I think it depends…
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Chayote!
Our chayotes are doing well! They are like a cross between a melon and cucumber in texture and a bit like courgette but a tiny bit peppery in taste (ie don’t have much of an identifiable taste but a crisp…
Bright Lights of Fontao
We have new street lights! I noticed a couple of weeks ago that the old yellow streetlights were getting changed for new LED ones. We’ve only ever had one working light outside our house and that stopped working a couple…
Fire!
There was a wild fire last week the other side of the hill to us, towards San Cibrao. The wind must have been going in the other direction as it wasn’t until we were going to San Cibrao along the…
Babbity Goes to the Vet’s
Babbity has not been eating so well and had an ear infection so she went to the vet’s. She was not happy! It turns out she has polyps in one of her ears (?) and this is apparently rare in…
Crime Scene
I guess it says something about the crime rate here that two hours after a lorry knocked some stones out of a wall, the local police were out and taping the wall with crime tape! Every three or four months…
Our first chayote!
We have four chayote vines growing well at the moment. We were inspired by the ones that I found in the road last year after a storm. I didn’t know what they were and needed to read up on them,…
Portugese Man of Wars (Men of War?)
There were a LOT of Portugese Man of War on the beach yesterday. I think there must have been 100 along the shorline. I also don’t think they were dead – I think they may have been stranded. I guess…
2025 Visit :)
I have just come back from a visit to see everyone in Swanage. We managed to pack a lot into three days! I did the whole trip on public transport and it was pretty successful. There was a delay going…
Charlie Goes to the Vet (and Beach)
Charlie had to go to the vet for a blood test to check the levels of medication she’s now taking for seizures. She’s had a few more seizures and the medication she was taking after a seizure has stopped working…