Fiesta(s)
It was the Mermaid fiesta this weekend. We went along to the start of it, but didn’t stay for the evening/night/early morning celebrations. This is the fiesta where people must vote on whether the mermaid is good or bad. Given…
Note to self….
Remember to collect the vegetables. I’d sort of forgotten about our carrots, having picked a few as baby carrots, we had left the rest. Only to find that now they are the size of our cat Babbity! We have also…
On the map
A signpost has appeared pointing people to Fontao – which is a surprise and perhaps will stop the delivery driver randomly leaving parcels at different venues in different towns for us. It’s still a little unclear as to where Fontao…
The Day the Vikings Came to Town…
There was a Viking festival in a town just the other side of Viviero (pooping nativity scene town) and we went to watch the Vikings arrive – and found ourselves watching a re-enactment which was excellent. I’m not sure of…
This….
is why we initially staked our tomatoes with tiny stakes – this is our previous attempt at tomato growing and they didn’t get much taller than my knees! And why we have had to stake and restake our tomatoes several…
Calabaza Peregino
I think we may know this as a bird’s house gourd? But here they are called calabaza peregino which is ‘Pilgrim’s Gourd’ and pilgrims taking the camino Santiago would use them to carry water. I’m not sure what we’ll do…
Oh, the Bishop of Bath and Wells…
We went to a medieval fiesta this weekend. I couldn’t make up my mind whether we were on the set of Blackadder or a scene from Midsomer Murders where someone gets killed by a javelin (don’t know if that has…
That’s Life & Buttons
A funny shaped radish 🙂 When not laughing uproariously at funny shaped vegetables, I’ve been making seaglass buttons. I’m practicing on bits of rough seaglass, which is just as well as it’s surprisingly difficult! I need to get the holes…
Next Project
Ian is clearing the earth which is on top of what was a threshing circle (square). It will make a very nice patio area. Unfortunately, we can’t use the door which you can see at the side of the barn,…
Picnic!
We planned to walk over to the headland for a picnic tea. We hadn’t planned, however, for the growth of super-ferns. And these were the small ones, we completely disappeared later on! So while we did get to the end…