Bear!
I finally finished the cardboard bear I started last year. I’d nearly finished him, but couldn’t get the eyes right and put him way in a huff! It was only when he fell off the top of the fridge, where…
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Dumpling Goes to the Vet
Here’s Dumpling looking grumpy at the vet clinic. She’s had a problem with her eye, with it getting sore and a danger of an ulcer forming, and she has to have eye drops to keep it clean. This is when…
What a super moon!
Last night, when we put the animals out for their before-bed wander, we noticed that the moon was very big and very golden. So we walked down to the beach to look at it from there. Unfortunately – it was…
Family of boars!
This is where they were a nano second before I had my phone ready and camera on ☝️ (it’s not a very good pic as it was still quite dark) I saw a boar cross the road, and unlike the…
Mermaid Song
I forgot to post this in the mermaid fiesta post – it’s a song by a local band about Maruxaina, which is the mermaid. This was from a previous year. There are some good arial photos 🙂
A Different View
There’s two wind turbines just outside San Cibroa (mermaid town) and we can see them from the beach in San Cibroa and also from the road, but we don’t actually drive past them. There’s a fish farm and trading estate…
Carnival
Carnival has been in full throw. There appeared to be parades in most of the towns. We saw the one in Burela by accident, but we went to the one in San Ciprian as it was nearest to us. There…
San Ciprian (Mermaid Town) Again
So we gravitated towards San Ciprian a bit over the last few days as there is a very good hardware shop which Ian is making maximum use of buying bits and pieces to add new sockets and other things! On…
Looking lived in…
The house is looking a bit more lived in. Having been empty for a while, it had a sort of abandoned feel to it, but with some of our bits and pieces outside, it’s looking more lived in!
Where’s the Wallies?
There’s more than one way to take a selfie. Here’s a screenshot of one of Burela council’s webcams. Look closely and you may find us somewhere on the beach (clue, we weren’t paddling).