Water Runs Out – And Daisy Sees an Opportunity

We use spring water for everything except drinking and it ran out on Friday. It ran out during our first summer here and didn’t run out last year – so I’ve made a note here so we can refer to…

We use spring water for everything except drinking and it ran out on Friday. It ran out during our first summer here and didn’t run out last year – so I’ve made a note here so we can refer to…

The path is finished! We’re very pleased with how it looks 🙂 And here it is lit up by the lights the council put up for the fiesta of the fried egg! Cat in the Sink Here’s funny photo of…

Ian’s been working on a path in the front garden. This is looking great! The ‘cobbles’ are made with cement wrapped in clingfilm. Ian puts them down and they sort of set into each other. When they are dry he…

We’ve had some very large courgettes! It seems that if we miss them one day, they explode in growth overnight so we won’t miss them the next day. We went for a picnic by the medieval bridge just outside San…

I think that the eucalyptus cutting has been finished. Yesterday a different machine arrived, this time a sort of cross between a digger and a combine harvester and neatly bundled all the leftover twigs and bits and pieces into bales…

We were fascinated yesterday to see this massive machine come down the road, pull out the fence post in the field behind us, roll onto the field and then replace the fence post back in the ground. The machine wasn’t…

We went for a walk out towards Burela and then went right towards Cervo and came back along the river. This is a proper ‘ruta’ – (a walk that follows a footpath) and is defined as ‘easy’. The walk goes…

Cucumbers and courgettes are coming through now from the first plants we planted. We’ve sprayed with copper whatever to help stop the mould on the leaves, however I think that’s something that just happens. We had one cucumber plant which…

This is really a reminder for us for next year 🙂 We didn’t do very well with courgettes last year – in fact I think we were still planting new plants now trying to get them to grow. This year…

Our first harvest of padron peppers this year! This was on a plant from last year, so I wonder if that’s why they are smaller than normal. They are normally green, however these were tucked away and turned red before…