Neighbours
Thirty two degrees is far above the norm for September and I'm sleeping with the shutters half way down and the windows wide open. The mosquitoes are tearing me up.…
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October 19, 2026
Vaca flaca – then and now
Vaca Flaca, skinny cow (also the name of a clothes shop I frequented in 90's Madrid), has been subject to a substantial re-org. The bathroom, single bed and balcony are…
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September 19, 2026
Rain in Spain
Thirty five years after studying Spanish at university and the same numbers of years being pretty sure that this corner of Spain with its Celtic connections and dense, green landscape…
February 17, 2026
All change
Four years in and the house isn’t looking a whole lot different to 2021, though it smells a lot better. I’ve painted, plastered (leaving that to the experts in future),…
November 18, 2025
Al interior
Time spent in Galicia centred on the coast for the first years: the tiny tower in Estribela, trips to Vigo and Pontevedra, a boyfriend in Bueu. Horizons widened when I…
September 29, 2025
Meet you in the car park
The small balcony faces south east and gets the morning sun. My actual son managed to break the plastic, yellow chair that sat comfortably for four years in a space…
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April 8, 2025
Buying a House on WhatsApp
If it wasn’t for the lockdowns, home-working, home-schooling and little else to do for light relief other than have one-too-many in the garden or doom-scroll on socials, I wouldn’t have…
March 23, 2025
