in search of the kiwi

I was surprised to see elder growing here, I had imagined that the climate would have been too hot and dry, but I was wrong.  They were fl...

The convent that I stayed in next was on the edge of a large village up in the hills behind Tarragona, about 20 minutes from the sea.  It ...

My dear friend Joy has been to stay.  She booked a flight from the UK ages ago and I was slightly concerned that the weather wouldn’t be a...

hiding in a hide L-R Me Don Ginny & Fergus My godson comes to visit, it’s half term in the UK and Fergus and his parents, Ginny a...

And then to Nic’s for a week, more of a catch up visit and to see how he’s getting on with the various projects that he has on the go.  I ...

My plans haven’t been going to plan since I last wrote, but it’s all worked out extraordinarily well.  I had been invited to work on const...

Back at Vanessa and Lisa’s, our projects continued.  Social visits out for pizzas on a Friday evening, mulching the hedging plants with st...

Having Percy is great, I can just head off for the day and do as I please, without begging or, borrowing a car or trying to work out how ...

The idea was to give planting a little go on Sunday and then go for it on Monday, as the forecast was for better weather.  Sunday turned o...

It was great to see Vanessa and Lisa again, in their new home this time rather than living outside in a caravan and barn.  I say in, in th...

November 27th. A day, this year, that I wasn’t particularly looking forward to.  In the past it had been a day of celebration, my Mothers’...

So that’s a ‘no’ for all those plots that have brought me to the conclusions above, which is all but one of them I have visited so far. Th...

I passed through Lourdes, Bagnere de Bigorre and Tarbes, staying a couple of nights and visiting as many estate agents as I could find.  ...