9 PM, 86 indoors, cooler outside with a light breeze from the sea and nearby Morocco making it pleasant. Shadow slanting across the canyon, we...
It will be a cold day in Hell when I take notice of government advice (and you won´t be able to get near the fire for vicars). Personally however,...
Herself has booked the ferry for a trip to Blighty in early August. Something to do with babies ...[ATTACH]Her main role is keeping me out of...
Thank you Upsydaisy, it´s obvious that Guiris can´t spell. However, since I have learned everything from mistakes, and nothing from success, I...
I´m not sure if I´ve spelt it right, but Giri is Spanish slang for a (usually) English immigrant, typically the sort that complains they have been...
I screeched to a halt, there at the roadside was a suitcase containing three badgers. I rang the vet, "I´ve got three badgers by the road in a...
9:30 and 80 in the shade, it´s going to be Scorchio ! Time for morning coffee ... [ATTACH]
I start by folding a rag to the right thickness and placing it over the axe head´s blunt end, resting the tip of a file on the rag and sliding the...
As a blacksmith and wood turner I´ve always used a sharpening stone, but since I started carving olive wood I have had to up my game. I have...
Here in the lower latitudes it´s been 86 f in the shade, 96 f in the sun according to the forecast,(101 f next Sunday !) but I do get a bit of...
Hmmm, picturesque without being at all luxurious ...?
Thanks Sheal, it´s been a productive morning, irrigation channels cleared, trees watered and a plumbing job done on the main spring-water supply...
Get Thee behind me Nick, for since there are no walls, fences or other means of determining where my property ends and the rest of Spain begins,...
Gosh ! I do appreciate your generosity Nick, but the temptations of wealth have never really appealed ...
I have spent hours learning carving techniques and methods, exploring the subtleties of wood grain and density, perfecting sharpening methods of...
I have messed the property about somewhat, JWK, all my working life I danced a stately gavotte with Planning, but here the advice is "Do not wake...
It does look a bit isolated, but in fact the village is 15 minute´s walk, or if you shut your eyes and walk about a bit, around seven seconds.
Many thanks for the greetings and pleasant responses, and the intelligence that England (I´m standing to attention ) is also plagued with wild...
Firstly, thanks for the welcome from the staff working on a Sunday ... Greetings from Andalucia, Spain, my home since 2016. I´m about 20 miles...
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