We went to the spring fare today in Zafra. And came back with five silkie chicks. I think they are about a week old, by the look of them, proper feathers are just coming through on their wings. They are…

We went out for a picnic and then went asparagus picking. Here is Ian showing off our haul – an all time record!

Well, Ian and I are like deflated balloons at the moment. It transpires that we are not super-ace asparagus pickers after all. We’ve been picking quite a bit over the last week or so, and have had record hauls. Last…

Bet you weren’t expecting that…!

I mentioned that we knew of the person who is going to decorate the house and that he was the one who had posted videos of the village on YouTube. He has uploaded a slideshow of old photos. We’ll try…

Well, we had a narrow escape from disaster – well perhaps not disaster, but certainly an escape from flooding. If you look at the back of the house now it is finished, you will see that not only are there…

Or how the small stove looks in our soon-to-be new bedroom (it looks tiny because it is dwarfed by the windows)….

Like moles we have come squinting out of the darkness of out living space and squinting out into the bright sunlight. Since the builders have finished we’ve had a lot more freedom about where we can sit without getting in…

This is our new door frame. We are keeping the old door, but the old frame was completely rotten, so this is the new one going in. I’m not entirely sure why there is a duvet hanging outside.

Pics of the front of the house. See a Tibs supervising the work in pic 2. The first pic shows how Manuel shaped the plaster around the windows.