I have just come back from a visit to see everyone in Swanage. We managed to pack a lot into three days! I did the whole trip on public transport and it was pretty successful. There was a delay going…

Charlie had to go to the vet for a blood test to check the levels of medication she’s now taking for seizures. She’s had a few more seizures and the medication she was taking after a seizure has stopped working…

We’ve noticed two things – one is there is a huge amount of places in Galicia with the same name. Something we found very confusing when looking at property as there would be 10s of villages with the same name…

Roland died last night. We weren’t expecting it – but neither were we surprised. We had spoken about taking him to the vet to be put to sleep and were waiting for the sign. There’s often one thing we’ll look…

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…