It is getting towards the end of February now and the weather is very changeable - one day warm and sunny, another cold and breezy and...

I know you will not be buying it "gentle reader", but for interest Detached 4-bedroom Villa / Chalet with fabulous uninterrupted views to...

There has been a huge amount of hot air and affront in the UK recently, mainly aimed at people "misgendering" other people. This is,...

My Amazon wish-list long has contained the requirement for a cheap "GoPro" style camera for - well, who knows really? - to be another toy...

Steeled myself to take a look in the camera box - expecting the worst as I have not seen any fledging bits around at all (actually a good...

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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...

… 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...

I know I have been a little lax in my blogging of late, largely being down to the lack of major themes to cover in depth - but then I...

For the last couple of years, we have been using a "local" internet provider - belonging to a company that happened to put a fibre-optic...

I have held forth before about the Lime Bearss trees and my love for them (ok, the fruit and the smell) and they are still getting...

A beautiful sunny day and I was looking down from the kitchen patio to check the clarity of G´s pool (what a cleaner I am!), when I...

The weather was cranked up to the max last weekend when we finally hit 100º and the pool water to 86º. Those figures finally got me into...