Monthly Archives: January 2013

An inconvenient return

I’ll be selecting a few of the photographs that Amanda and I took while we were at the barn and sharing them with you over the next couple of weeks, as a stop-gap to my next visit. I may, however, be … Continue reading

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A night of two feasts

We’re back in the UK for a while, but not without one final Spanish adventure. On Friday we’d popped to our new neighbours, the ones from Madrid, to drop off a key and ask if they would be so kind … Continue reading

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The curious case of the missing shoe

Amanda has arrived in Galicia for the first time since May 2012, and she brought the English snow with her. After negotiating a fraught drive from Huddersfield to London and a night in a PremierInn, her plane departed Stansted at … Continue reading

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Noah had the right idea

It hasn’t stopped raining for forty-eight hours. Not one minute of respite, just relentless stair-rods, causing landslides, impromptu waterfalls, and heavily swelled streams and rivers. The way to describe such rain is with the phrase ‘of biblical proportions’. I am not sure that … Continue reading

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Oops…that was expensive!

It’s been an expensive day, and much as I wish it wasn’t, it was all my fault. Firstly, the kitchen floor is now finished and despite my initial reservations I am pretty happy with it. The tiles are porcelain but … Continue reading

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