SUNDAY 7TH APRIL The sun is up, the sky is blue…… there’s a tingle in the air that says that our Mediterranean spring is just around the corner, still a little unsure of itself but…
Wednesday 30th January Spring is here! Well, no, obviously looking at the date, it isn’t… but it certainly feels like it! We have all the windows thrown wide open, and have been bare-armed for much…
Tuesday 4th December The weather has been ’interesting’ over the past week. Windy, chilly but bright and sunny – too warm with the heating on, too cold with the heating off…. If I was writing…
Thursday 22nd November I’m back! Not from outer space like Gloria Gaynor, (although I have been told that I look a little boggle eyed first thing in the morning), but from a blog holiday. Summer…
Sunday 6th May Nake! There’s a nake on my step and Olivier is working!! It looks vicious! I’ve taken a photo of it (from a distance – it was clearly poised to pounce!) and have…
Thursday 19th April It’s a funny thing about moving to another country because all the things that you were desperate to get your hands on and your gob round become ordinary. Bread is an example.…
SUNDAY 4TH MARCH Today has turned quite windy, ’tho dry and sunny but yesterday was yet another in a long line of beautiful days in the P-O and my last day of stuffing my face…
Friday 3rd February Aie! Ca caille, ça pèle…. It is decidedly chilly at the moment – well into the minuses I am told, although here in my toasty office, I can’t feel a thing. It’s dry and…
Monday 9th January 2012 This is today, right here, right now, just taken from the end of the garden. Yes, yes, it really is. Isn’t it amazing? We are so blessed, waking up to sunshine…
December 16th What can I say about December so far? Fantastic? Warm, dry, sunny, fresh, envigorating…… absolutely delicious? The leaves are only just beginning to fall off the trees around Maureillas, the world still clothed in…