We went to the Feria today in Zafra. It was very good, you could buy anything from a quail to a prize bull or an egg cup to a crane – or flamenco dress to leather chaps, paella stove to…

Ian came back from the shop with onions the size of small balloons. He said he hadn’t picked the really big ones! We stuffed them for tea, and this was quite a success. They were so big that Ian had…

We needed to get Sam some more food and sausages so, instead of going to Zafra, we went to Azuaga. This is on the Cordoba road past the wildlife place at Berlanga. We haven’t been for a long time –…

I woke up this morning to find that Sam had not only got into the bed, but he was led on his back, with his head on the pillow and his front paws peeking out over the duvet. How on…

Of course, other exciting things happened too last weekend. Not least the fact that we measured the well. We’ve had a dry summer (until last Sunday, of course) so the well must be at a low point. We were delighted…

So, we were heading towards Seville to take Jim and Viv to the train station when, just outside Monestario, the car made a funny noise. Ian pulls over and takes a look under the bonnet and finds the remains of…

We went out prickly pear scrumping today. Based on the fact that our Aloe Vera has grown like a triffid this summer and we see them growing wild locally, we thought that perhaps we ought to look at other native…

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