Like meeting old friends…

A lot of my craft supplies are packed away in boxes downstairs and I thought I’d get a few boxes out and go through them so I don’t forget what I have and to see any ideas for new projects…

Tomatoes and drips…

Here’s a photo of some of our tomatoes and peppers which are still coming through well. After a very slow and disappointing start, we’ve had not too bad a harvest. We had a few different types, including some yellow cherry…

S&A Visit!

Sue and Andy came to visit last week. They flew to Bilbao, and then worked their way to us via Lugo and Santiago Compostella. We went to a few places including Cathedral beach – which was crazy busy with people…

Snails etc

Snails are much more active here than the snails in Extremadura who just used to hang round in clumps waiting to be harvested. Snails were also a very common meal there, and I don’t think so much here. We’d see…

Bear!

I finally finished the cardboard bear I started last year. I’d nearly finished him, but couldn’t get the eyes right and put him way in a huff! It was only when he fell off the top of the fridge, where…

Dumpling Goes to the Vet

Here’s Dumpling looking grumpy at the vet clinic. She’s had a problem with her eye, with it getting sore and a danger of an ulcer forming, and she has to have eye drops to keep it clean. This is when…

What a super moon!

Last night, when we put the animals out for their before-bed wander, we noticed that the moon was very big and very golden. So we walked down to the beach to look at it from there. Unfortunately – it was…

Emergency Visit to the Vet with Charlie

Here’s Charlie sleeping soundly after an emergency visit to the vet. She had a seizure, which was the first for a couple of months, but we’d hoped that after the last cluster she would have a few clear months, so…

Looked out the window…

And saw this huge ship on the horizon! The shipping lane is on the horizon so we quite often see the silhouettes of large ships, but nothing quite this big. Looked at our boat app and it was a cruise…