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We had the first frost on the roof this morning. The weather is very clear during the day, but this has meant the temperature has dropped a lot at night. It has been very mild. The weather is perfect for…

Here’s Rosie now, doing one of her favorite things, which is making herself wet and muddy, compared to exactly a year ago when she first arrived.

Here is Anne, Rosie’s sister winning a prize at a dog show in Galicia. It was for a category called ‘gorilones’ which isn’t a word I know, however Galician is spoken in Galicia, so it could be a Galician word.…

Our chickens are very weird. They steadfastly choose to ignore the lovely snuggly bed they have, opting to huddle under it, rather than go up into it. I even tried putting the food up their. We then had to resort…

There is a bee farm not far from us – we were interested to see that the hives are made from metal. I would have thought this made a rather nice little oven in the summer – but apparently the…

The holiday season has begun. There are two holidays this week, tomorrow which is Constitution Day and Thursday which is Day of the Immaculate conception. There’s then Christmas Day, which is a Sunday this year so Saturday and Monday will…

Friday we saw the first storks of the year. There was one sat on the church tower. No signs of any others yet, and needless to say we immediately mused about what time they normally return. Hence the heading of…

Now that it is cooler, the undertable heaters are coming out, blankets being put over tables and people gathering round table in bars. We really don’t know what the etiquette is and when we are at Pepe’s, do we just…

I was a little disappointed to find that the surface of my favorite cycle route had been washed away in part during the heavy rain. While it was passable, it turned what was a pleasant pooter through the countryside into…