Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I always have done in the past simply because I like to start the new year with a plan. I like the idea of a fresh start, that whatever happened last year is past and that the best is still to come.That last sentence has become more important asContinue reading “Resolutions or Not?”
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Locks, Dogs and Gypsies.
The mystery of the metallic manure.
When we moved to the Galicia fourteen years ago, we had never lived in the countryside before. We couldn’t speak either the local Galician language used by our neighbours or Castilian Spanish. Over the years, there have been many misunderstandings because of both language and lack of rural experience. I can’t hope to explain howContinue reading “The mystery of the metallic manure.”
Summer Heat
Does anyone else find it hard to write when it’s hot? I just don’t concentrate well. It doesn’t help when I go down to breakfast and find a huge basket of vegetables from the garden to deal with. The fridge and veg basket are already full from last nights harvest. So I sit looking atContinue reading “Summer Heat”
Abigail Thorne 