Category: Spain
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Caper Diem
I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist. What other catchy title could I use for a post about capers? Just Capers sounded really boring, Caper-bility Brown was the wrong colour and Tossing The Caper sounded a bit rude. Enough of that, let’s seize the capers and get on with this post. Rather like the salt cod that […]
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The Grand Tour #Rioja Vlog Dos
Here it is, The Grand Tour of our new project in Alcala la Real. It is a little longer than I had anticipated (and I’m not happy with the sound quality) but at least you get a full guided tour and no rubble or dry rot is left unturned. Pete says that my running commentary […]
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Learning The Ropes #RiojaVlog Uno
Wilma and I had an entire morning’s entertainment planned for you; fire-eaters, jugglers, the works, but the weather was so vile this morning, we had to abandon filming. I was hoping to give you a quick guided tour of the house and building work but the flood lights had been taken up to the roof […]
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Reportage From The Groves
I’ve had a fancy to try my hand at vlogging for some time. Ages in fact. With this in mind, and the fact that I’m going to be in front of the camera, I took a long, hard look at myself in the mirror. My roots need re-doing, my eyebrows need plucking but without doubt […]
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Linoleum Lottie
Here are a couple of lino cut prints that I’ve made this week; inspired by the house and the countryside around me. They are a work in progress as I’m new to lino (apart from scrubbing floors!) but hopefully practice will make perfect.
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Busy With The Pooper Scooper
Just as Irishman and I had finally got some semblance of order back in our lives, there was a knock at the door. Stood on the doorstep was my dear friend Mo with a tiny puppy in her arms. The little scrap was crawling in fleas and shivering. Over night some callous person had dumped […]
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Scheming & Dreaming. The Latest From Your Iberian Correspondent.
Your Iberian Correspondent has been somewhat remiss on keeping up with her Rioja Diaries. Four months has lapsed since the last entry; enough time that were I a hamster, I’d have produced five litters of babies by now and girding my loins for a sixth. But, as it so happens, I am not a hamster; […]
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Bloody Sunday
Mercifully, I can probably count on one hand the amount of times in my life that I’ve been so embarrassed or ashamed that I’ve wanted the ground to swallow me up, right there, right then. Being a fairly confident, laid back type of person, it takes a lot to make me blush or drop my […]
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