Tag Archives: Neighbours

Immaculate conception

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Paul

Today was a national religious holiday, and the second of this week. After ‘Constitution Day’ on Tuesday, today saw the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In a week of holidays many schools and public offices are also taking tomorrow off … Continue reading →

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Tonight I cheated death

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Paul

I feel like I’ve put in a full day today, despite arriving after my workmen and leaving just before them. I stayed especially late as Pepe was putting the final touches to the first of two chimneys and I wanted … Continue reading →

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The blind leading the blind

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Paul

Our next door neighbours in Liñeiras are English, for the moment at least. The house which they bought a couple of months after we acquired our pile of stones is back on the market and they are renovating another house … Continue reading →

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Time for an eviction

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Paul

Those of you who are following this blog will be aware of our sadness at learning of the demise of Carlos’ aged and motheaten donkey, and the subsequent frenzied hunt over our two acres to see whether he’d taken the … Continue reading →

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He’ll not see Christmas

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Paul

The death of Carlos’ donkey is not the end of the tale of livestock at Casa Liñeiras, for now we have a new squatter. I use ‘we’ in the loosest of terms for the likelihood is that the animal we have … Continue reading →

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