Harness the power of the sun, so we did, we brought a solar cooker! Its called a Sun Oven and was purchased from these people who run a very efficient site. It arrived late Wednesday evening and by the end of Thursday we had cooked Patatas a la Pobre and a whole chicken. The Patatas a la [...]

As you are aware we got chickens a few months ago (see previous post) so I thought I would give you an update on how they are getting along.  We now only have 2 left. No 3 died, not sure what of, but she is no longer with us even though I tried to nurse [...]

We had to buy a new oven! Our old one, which was only a year old, was way past its sell buy date. We do not have space in the kitchen for a normal oven so we have to buy worktop ovens. Now you would have thought it was a simple job to replace the [...]

We have discussed getting chickens for a good year now, first of all we decided we were not responsible enough to have some, then a couple of months ago we decided we were. We settled on 3 to start with to see how we got on. Our good friend David gave us a spare A-frame [...]

Yesterday we ventured out in between the rain to go buy some plastic to try and stop the leaks in the house. It is then that we noticed our neighbours land was on the move and was partially blocking our drive. When we came back from Lanjaron we decided to move the cars lower down [...]

So there we are in the kitchen, Richard is asking if we have a smaller jug to put the olive oil in, the 5litre bottle is no that easy to manoeuvre oil into yorkshire pudding trays, so I bend down, open the cupboard to look for a smaller jug, next thing I hear is Richard swearing and [...]

Chickens, Mules and two old fools is the title of a book I recommend you to read. The book was written by Victoria Twead and was awarded the HarperCollins Authonomy ‘Gold Star’. It is an interesting and hilarious read about life here in rural Spain. It seems every rural town/village has its characters, I know ours does, [...]

My last post about the weather here in Andalucia “Whats with the weather in Andalucia” was written before the great deluge that arrived on our town of Lanjaron on 24th December, yes Christmas Eve. We recorded a massive 81mm of rain on that day! Needless to say there has been damage in Lanjaron with our [...]

Having basked in temperatures of 18C for the first 15 days of December and having a never ending summer, its now been raining here in Andalucia since the 16th December! To start with we in Lanjaron thought great, the long awaited rain has arrived, time to get the land rotivatord, crops planted, snow will arrive [...]