Pixie has been to the vet to have the dosis of the medication she takes checked. This is from when she lost her fur a few years ago. She was having regular blood tests at our last vet. I thought…

This is the best bench in the world – we know that because it says so on the bench (more or less). We had promised that we would visit the best bench in the world because when we were looking…

I don’t think we’ve seen a gecko yet, but we’ve got a few of these little wall lizards. Including this one which is hiding behind the pot, although you can’t see it in the photo, is amazingly green. We took…

Daisy managed to lose her ball on the beach again. Admittedly, it probably wasn’t her fault the ball bounced off a rock and got lodged in the wall. Ian to the rescue though trying to get it out. He was…

We had to go to the supermarket, so decided to head inland and go somewhere we hadn’t been before and tie it in with a circular walk. As the crow flies it is about 18km (11 miles), however, remembering our…

I realized that i hadn’t posted a photo of the finished gate. It certainly does the job, even Percy can’t squeeze his way through there. The sinister looking mound on the bottom left is where Ian has filled the trough…

Just the other side of the aluminium plant is the small port of Moras where the dolos (the big concrete things that look like giant jacks or hammers) used to be made. There is a sort of memorial to the…

Well, who’d have thought we lived near the tallest tree in Spain. Certainly we didn’t – although admittedly it was something we’d never really thought about!! The sequence of events was like this – we had walked up to see…

A lot of work has been going on with the cutting down of the eucalyptus trees opposite us. We don’t know yet whether this is part of the initiative to replace eucalyptus with less fire-hazardy trees, whether they are cutting…