I noticed that one of the people who comes to tend his huerta near us harvests ferns and uses them to keep down weeds and to keep moisture in the soil. What a good idea. We’ve been quite successful at…
This is the first batch of pebbles and stones which I finished tumbling. There’s actually another stage to polish them to a high shine, but I think I prefer the more satiny look, particularly since some of the stones are…
We’ve been a little slow with our vegetable garden this year. I think we’ve both decided that we really don’t love gardening – therefore our aim is to concentrate on ‘commodity’ veg, the staple veg we buy regularly which will…
Pixie has to go to the vet in Burela every six or so months for a blood test so they can check the levels of medication she’s takes. It’s always a bit traumatic as she doesn’t like going – and…
And here’s a fishing boat just before the sun comes up. It still has its light on. It’s quite nice to see the fishing boats with their lights on at night as they sort of twinkle in the dark. Talking…
Primrose got the OK to have an op at the vet so we took her in to have, what we thought was going to be her tooth removed. It turns out, they were able to clear the build up from…
…we used our concrete pot mould! When we were living in Cumbria, we went to an auction and among the treasures we bought were a coulple of concrete pot moulds. Made of fiberglass, they are pretty big things, and we’ve…
We needed to go to one of the bigger towns for some bits and bobs so on the way back, we went to visit some beaches we hadn’t been to before. We were driving on the coast road the other…
It must be over six months since Primrose first became ill. We took her to the vet as an emergency and didn’t think she’d be coming back with us, but the vet was more optimistic and Primrose slowly recovered.It’s been…
So much for the sun shining on the righteous – again we had another wet Samana Santa. Easter always appears to be wet, which is a shame when there’s a several hundred year old saint statue to be carted round…