“I'm on the lookout for thieves,” the woman patrolling the cork forest next to our house told us. I hadn't thought of the area where...
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The sheep have been sent out to work. Not a lot has happened in our part of Portugal since the last entry. Spring has popped...
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I don't think we'll tell DC about the two spiders we had to evict this morning. They weren't tarantula-sized, but they were big enough for...
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It's a dreich old morning; the wind's howling and the rain's lashing against the living room window. It's blowing in from the south west which...
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A week ago it was 5C in our kitchen first thing in the morning, rising to a balmy 7/8C by midday. The kitchen wasn't the...
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€1.80 per portion. That's what our meal cost us last night. It was a creamy and zesty salmon carbonara which I'd happily have paid €10...
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Somewhere out there in cyberspace my alter ego, Jack Sparkle, drifts aimlessly. He's a construct from a writing job from years ago which was most...
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It's been a quiet Natal on the farm, unsurprisingly. Christmas has consisted of lazy days lounging on the sofa beside a roaring fire; watching films...
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The leaves outside the window have teardrops on their tips. It's a drizzly, grey day and it's cold - around 7C. That might not seem...
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