The man who comes to tend the huerta opposite us gave us a big bag of lemons. He has a number of lemon trees and it looks like it’s been a pretty good year. There are lemon trees everywhere –…

We’ve had back to back storms last week with high winds and lots of waves! The beaches and coast paths were closed and even Burela port was closed one day, which questions the expression ‘any port in a storm’. We…

I looked out of the window and saw a pony quite happily wandering up the road. It was early and dark and he was on his own so clearly he shouldn’t be out unsupervised. We were pretty certain we knew…

Sadly Barry the Lovebird (AKA Nutcracker) died overnight. She was nearly 10, which is about average for a lovebird. She had been having turns, like mini seizures or strokes, and one started yesterday which she didn’t come round from. We…

We have a pet flap in the front door. With the new stove we realized we’d be heating the kitchen for the hot air to just go out the door which we leave open. Although since the cold spell has…

There’s a house I sometimes go past in the mornings when it’s dark and I see what I thought looked like a goat stood on the window, but put it down to being dark and some strange shadows. Anyway, passing…

We lit the stove and it works! It works very well, probably better than we hoped for really. Ian’s looking at it nervously here as he’s just lit it and waiting to see what happens. It’s quite engineered, the fire…

Ian has finished the stove and we are waiting now for a couple of days before we can light it and see how it works! The cast iron top had been painted, as you can see in the pic below:…

The stove is taking shape! Ian’s built the inside sections and attached the front… Next Ian will be finishing the inside and then attaching the top. We have to wait a couple of weeks before lighting it as we need…

The stove is beginning to take shape! The black facia in the photo above isn’t fixed in place yet as Ian needs to do the brickwork behind it. He’s got thermal bricks which he will build the main body of…