Shaking Olive Trees

It’s olive harvest time of year and the trees are getting stripped. The olive groves are full of people either hitting trees with sticks – or shaking them with branch shaking machines, which are the sort of size of strimmers,…

Drums!

My least favourite celebration has just started which is the night time drummers who walk round the village for two hours, starting at about 4.30. There are some excellent traditions – and some that should be left to die out…

Millie goes for a walk

Here is millie coming back from her morning walk, she is in her special Millie bag. Ian is noe known as the dog wearer.

Adventure playground!

Just finished an adventure playground for Gary and Barry! That will keep them busy for a while, plenty for them to chew and nibble!

Celebrating the Extra Hour

We celebrated the extra hour this morning by going out for a walk, first time for a while as it still gets hot in the afternoon, but it’s dark until so late in the morning. We took Tinkerbelle, Pixie and…

Shingles, Tinkerbelle and Rain (or lack of)

Ian has been suffering from the shingles for the past week or so. He actually spent the afternoon of his birthday at the hospital as the pain was so bad, and at that time the rash hadn’t really started so…

Tinkerbelle goes to the dentist

Tinkerbelle wasn’t eating well so we took her to the vet. She had a tooth infection and had to have her teeth cleaned and a tooth remove. She had to stay in over night as they also found that she…