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We went out scrumping figs and almonds – not with great success. We couldn’t find many figs and those we could were quite small. But we did get enough for fig tart – which is flaky pastry with blue cheese…

We have a pigeon roosting on the window ledge over our back door. Which, given all their other options, seems unlikely to be the best place to roost! Not only does the nesting material fall off, every time it moves…

If we can count the drops? This is the first rain for a long time, but I can’t help thinking it doesn’t really count!

One of the knock-on effects from the allergic reaction I had earlier this year was my skin peeled – and every bit peeled – even the inside of my mouth 🙁 And it took some time to finish, with my…

Ludvig keeping cool on the fan! We’re in the midst of a heatwave. I think this is the second or third this year. Temperatures went to 46 in Badajoz – which is pretty hot, and the highest ever temperatures have…

To start, we thought this might be a spaceship, but on closer inspection it was a cloud 🙂 Here’s a video of Ian trying to wear Daisy out, unusually, he doesn’t have a small one eyed chihuahua hanging off his…

The hot weather had brought a rather abrupt end to the asparagus season. We went from plentiful to one sad stalk in just a couple of days! Here’s another where’s wally photo, but this time there’s a little lizard in…

The rain and warm weather has created some impressive asparagus stalks! Here’s Ian fighting his way through weeks. And this is a pic of the village from another angle. We took a different turn on our asparagus hunt and found…

The hanging bottles are some sort of insect catcher! So, I don’t know whether these are organic trees where they aren’t spraying them or trees with problems with a certain type of insect or something else – but what ever…

When we were out asparagussing we saw one olive grove with hanging bottle in the trees. I guess about one third of the trees had these bottles with what appeared to be clear liquid in them. I’ve been wondering why…