We´ve been in the middle of an Indian summer, or perhaps a Spanish autumn – I´m not sure. Lunch times see us outside in t-shirts, shorts looking for shade, the evenings in fleeces. Monday evening it was over 16 degrees…

We spent last night with the lights out, hiding from crowds of ´brujas´ (witches). None actually came round, which left us with a pile of sweets. I think that last year our tactics were all wrong, Ian paniced and emptied…

Even our night classes are typically un-Spanish. Our class is from 5.30 to 7.00 and on Wednesday we were leaving the bar at about 11.20p.m when a friend came in for her tea, having just finished her night class that…

Well, I am now planning a proper project. I have geared down the plans from many yards of fine fabric to something the size of, say, an egg cozy. At last we got the connector for my glass blow torch…

We went to enrol on the Spanish classes last week. As if to demonstrate our need for classes, we went in and asked where we needed to go to enrol and promptly got taken up to the roof top. I…

Having sleyed my heddles, and threaded the reed, as I started beaming the warp ready for cranking and found that I had twisted warps. So I had to undo the whole lot and start again. What I have learned so…

The one thing that has had to give over the last fortnight has been our walks. We went out yesterday for the first time for a couple of weeks and petal fell in the water fountain which made us wonder…

My capelet design has appeared in Interweave Crochet magazine. Pic bottom right www.interweavecrochet.com. I still think it is cow pat brown and that it was modeled on a stick insect…

Ian made a delicious paella last night. Gently sauteeing the onion and garlic until it was a soft paste, adding vegetables and olive oil, frying the rice and adding it all together with saffron in the paella pan with a…