De Perros y Limones

Ma baby dun gon.  Sonalee is away in the UK tending to her mother and catching up with her amazing nephews.  It means that there ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.  And a great excuse to link to these videos.  As a piece of film, this is pretty dammed good.  And, whatever the drummer is…

It looks like the winter is on its way out in Fuente Tojar.  The days are longer, sunnier and much more pleasant,  although the nights can still be a bit nippy.  Could it be that we will soon be wearing shorts and t-shirt again?  Whilst the memories of a bitter London are still fresh in…

Apologies for the Spanglish title;  ‘or bust’ doesn’t translate well into Spanish.  But it does kind of illustrate what the last few weeks have been like for the both of us.  We have been living in two very different worlds where the juxtaposition of our life here in rural Andalusia and that of job-seeking in…

It was the festival of the Three Kings and, given its importance to my god-daughter, we planned a trip to Bilbao nearly 800km away to see her.  Of course, it wouldn’t just be her.  It would also be her brother and sister, her parents, her grandparents, her uncle and aunty, her other uncle, her grandmother’s…

Feliz Ano Nueve!  Welcome to the first blog of the New Year.  It’s going to be a big and bewildering year again for the two us and our brood.  We have Brexit to deal with and finding a job somewhere and our 50th birthdays and a wedding in Romania to attend and trying, desperately, to…

Well, I’d like to say it’s been another busy week in the Byatt-Abeyawardene household but that wouldn’t be strictly true since we’re not actually working. We have done some stuff though; some because we have had to and some because we’ve had two weeks of brilliantly sunny winter days with temperatures hitting the 20’s regularly.…

It has been an exciting few weeks in the Byatt-Abeyawardene household. We hosted my mother for ten days as well as a curry night for 9 people, some of whom were old colleagues of Sonalee. I’ve also managed to do my first road race and I made a coffee table! That, and we discovered that…

So, firstly, it turns out that the recent bad spell of weather really was a bit of a fluke for this time of year. Great. We’ve got more of that to come in December. Ah. Not so great when you have your god-daughter and her family coming to visit. Three small children + mummy and…

Ouch, it’s cold. It’s Baltic. It’s freezing. Its Brass Monkeys out there.* It’s also a bit of a shock to the system let me tell you. The shops in and around Priego have been selling those portable radiators and other heating-related products to great effect. I reckon we weren’t the only ones caught out when…

Or, as its known around these parts, Priego. It’s a small town about fifteen minutes drive away from us here in Fuente Tojar and is the municipal capital for the area surrounding us – The Subbetica. You can find more details here but you can be sure that it is a place that you will…