We are now into the early days of August - I know it is August as I just took G to Torremollinos and the traffic was unbelievable. August...

The title says it all in a variety of ways. A couple of weeks ago, I saw one of our regular visitors, a spotted flycatcher, mooching...

I am having a bit of ´mare with clocks at present. Not the nice tickey / chimey sort, rather the "make the water run for 10 mins" sort....

April, that is (in the words of the Paul Simon song). Fantastic weather (up in the high twenties) and clear blue skies. Clear skies in...

I am starting to side with the people who leave here for a few months in winter and go somewhere warmer (think Thailand or South Africa)....

The lack of data posted so far this year was not due to lack of content, rather due to requirements to be involved in other things, Now a...

So what of the year 2022? Today is the shortest day of the year, and, after months of drought and all the inevitable cries of...

Today is the shortest day of the year, but luckily we still have electrical power here in southern spain. The providers have played with...

Sitting at my pc listening to the wind howling outside. It is a north wind, which, in our case, means it can come from anywhere in the...

The changing of the (many) clocks shortly followed by the (hassle) of "All Souls" (with associated wholesale migration to the cemetry) on...

The spanish health system (which is probably better than or the equal of the UK´s sacred cow NHS) got its act together fairly quickly...

Very sad to hear of the passing of Queen Elizabeth on Thursday. Sad, but not entirely unexpected, as the reports coming from Balmoral...

The local painter was true to his word and turned up in July - well on the 28th anyway - and with 12 hours warning ("OK to start...

Twenty One years and one week after "the Great Fire of Mijas", we had a repeat - only the press generally missed the point that it was...

Well, that blood(y) rain has struck again and created yet another fine mess. It really is like mud and sticks to everything (walls,...

Back in the days of being a "proper" expat, and when we lived in Oman, there was an irregular phonomenon they called "saharan rain" which...

We had a couple of really windy / gusty days this week (ok, I know the UK was blasted apart by Eunice, but this is us) and at the tail...

In keeping with my British heritage, I shall start with the weather. It is dull and damp and I am awaiting the delivery of another lot of...

… and a Happy New Year to (all) our reader(s). In keeping with tradition, I guess we should have some sort of review of the year, but...

On a whim, I bought a bird feeder and a kilo of seeds from the local "campo" shop a couple of weeks ago. The feeder design was an...