We said goodbye to the Astra last week. On Thursday the scrap people came and took it away. Cars have to be officially scrapped, so there is a free service where the scrapyard comes and takes the car away and…

I decided that it was time to teach Pixie that all walks don’t end with tapas at Pepes, so yesterday she got treated to her first ‘proper’ walk. We did the ghost house walk, which is a round walk and…

I forgot to say that when we went to the reservoir the other day, someone had written ‘ladrones’ which means thieves across the signs, and crossed out Llerena and written Berlanga on the name of the reservoir. Berlanga is the…

With a jigsaw to play too –

We had some green tomatoes, and a few mangy red ones, so I made some green tomato chutney yesterday. It’s pretty good. Just need to work out what we are going to do with a mountain of melons I misguidedly…

I went to the Doctor yesterday with a bad shoulder. I’ve had it for about a year – in fact, since I fell off my bike last year – but it has got progressively worse and is affecting my movement.…

A couple of weeks ago, we had a picnic at the resevoir outside Llerena. In the past, we have sat on the edge, by the fence, with our feet in the water. We’d have needed pretty long legs to dangle…

Here’s this week’s joke for Marchena35. I think it should have been the other way round – what did the ghost say to the monster – however it didn’t look right with the way I had posed the ghost.

We’ve been, in Internet terms, Google Dumped and Panda Slapped. This is where Google change their search algorithms and sites that were performing well in search results, are downgraded so that other sites appear above them. This has a significant…

We went for our first pasty ride of the season yesterday. Popped a couple of pasties in a backpack and did a round trip towards Usagre and back. The recent rain made the tracks dust-free which was nice for a…