I wrote my  diary for nearly two years on NativeSpain and felt that it had a natural time of finishing at the End of the second year. Part of my thinking or more accurately emotional response was – how do I know if this is worthwhile – does anyone read this? A bit sad that there aren't any statistics and rarely and then only the ed. ever left a comment.

Another Year in Spain comes to an end ...

A Christmas Tail 

Living in the campesino as we do we share responsibility for picking up post with our neighbour Jackie from the boxes in town. Quite arduous at the moment with four people's mail and Chrissie presents arriving in a number of guises – cardboard boxes bags bin liners, trailing string and /or requiring heavy duty shears to get through the brown tape......

Bless the Sol Times

Back to Basics

We have been waiting on results for Freddie, Barnie's brother, and he is in the clear - no feline leukemia. Used the old technique of getting busy, for instance doing a portrait of Barnie in pastels while we were waiting for news of Fred.. Again it worked in both senses.

 Losing another friend

A very strange thing happened today...

Octobers

Here we all are again  - riding the back of the tiger in October. Bizarre weather patterns and we havent got to the autumn equinox yet; stinking financial climate on a global scale - I have taken the position that in the end "they" wont do anything so stupid as to bring the financial system to the abyss so I shall just ride it out...

Whew! Going Native in Alicante gone to press...

First attempts at cheesemaking

 Way back at the beginning of the year having visited my neighbours' goat and sheep farm I did some research on cheesemaking. Well finally I got my act together and had a first experimental trial with feta as it is quick and easy and you dont have to wait six months to eat it....