The seasons have definitely changed here.  We have taken delivery of a trailer-full of olive tree wood and have stacked it in my superbly built* woodshed and have used it for a few weekends now. *please treat the word “superbly” with caution The change was, unfortunately, brought to vivid life in the disaster that befell…

This is not a blog So, El Higueron is a settlement on the outskirts of Cordoba that could be described as “Rough and Ready”, “Chavvy”, “Gypsy Town”, “A bit of a Dump” and many other similarly themed descriptions. It’s where we live. It has, next to the open railway lines, a huge piece of post-industrial…

So there has been a hiatus of a few months and much toing and froing about a home for this blog and whether it was something that I still wanted to do, in part thanks to the toing and froing that was doing my head in. Anyway, it is back.  It will be here for…

Apologies for the terse style and the hundreds of photos. We went on holiday to northern Portugal for a month. It was great. We needed to get away from the extreme heat of the village for a few weeks and it worked.  We had temperatures in the lower 20´s and even some rain.  We had…

Apologies for the late publication of this blog but I have been searching for a new home for it after being told I would be “upgraded” at a huge new cost.  This will probably be the last one on this current site.  Or the 2nd last one. Anyway, lots has happened.  Which means lots of…

I’m sat here trying to think of anything interesting that I have done in the past month or so.  My wife is a bit ‘merry’ (she’s been round to Jan’s house) and isn’t helping much and the dogs are busy barking at anything  that moves on the street.  The two cats are lounging around being…

It has been an emotional month, to be sure.  It has been a slightly surreal month as well and it is difficult to know how to get that across in mere words. I’ll start with my mum.  My mum decided that the time was right for her to have a Stroke.  Possibly even two.  This…

It has been an oddly boring month or so since I last wrote.  It’s difficult to point out any really significant happenings or visitations.  This is reflected in the somewhat staid photos. I did reach the age of 55, which makes me wonder just how.  We had curry for dinner as a celebration.  We love…

It’s always the hardest month, isn’t it?  Darkness and greyness and lots of rain.  Except this year, we had a heatwave.  It was 25 degrees here last week, which is ridiculous.  We haven’t had rain for weeks and weeks.   It’s getting worse.   This whole area needs rain, badly. Anyway, so we’re trying to get a…

I have been a foreigner for 14 years now.  In four different countries and on three different continents but no matter where I have been, it takes some getting used to. In Sri Lanka, it was a bit odd since I was regarded as someone to be in awe of by some and as a…