and our first two courgettes…

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…

Padron Peppers

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…

A visit to the hardware shop…

A visit to the hardware shop is very much a pleasure 🙂 This is the view from where we park the car. And after, we went to the supermarket then went for a picnic at the little fishing port which…

Mondoñedo

We visited a town called Mondoñedo. It’s somewhere we’ve wanted to go for a while and we were waiting till we had to go that way for something else, but it’s sort of in the wrong direction for all the…

A Boar Ate Our Lillies

I thought Ian had mysteriously hacked down a clump of lilies by the car – but couldn’t think why he would have done it overnight. When I asked him, he looked at me oddly, obviously wondering why I would think…

What is this strange creature – & blackouts!

We haven’t seen any rabbits since we’ve been here – neither hide nor hare (groan) of one. No bunny tracks, no traffic casualties, not a single thing. Until I saw this one which I think is a pet rabbit and…

Bird of Paradise Plant

Our bird of paradise plant has flowered – and indeed, it does look like a spiky bird. It had got sort of entangled in nasturtiums which have over taken the garden – but when I managed to uncover it, it…

Daisy Plays Frisbee

Daisy loves playing ball – she could quite happily run and fetch a ball all day. We sometimes see a dog that has no end of fun with two frisbees so we wondered how Daisy would be, and decided to…

We say goodbye to Dumpling

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Dumpling. We knew that the day was coming and were just taking it on a day by day basis. She was still enjoying life, mooching around the bird cages looking for dropped treats,…

Now that was a surprise!

We had to go to Burela to pick up a parcel so instead of coming straight back, we went to the little port just outside of the town to have lunch – the one we went to recently and it…