Well the internet is working for a few minutes so just to say hello there. We’re having ‘issues’ with the Iberbanda connection. Oh sometimes I think life with cables and pipes running to the house would be just lovely. But no, we’ve got a little mini satellite dish type thing that miraculously collects the internet [...]
For the record BigD and myself have teamed up to run a blog together (aaaah, sweet aren’t we?). It’s over at A Self Sufficient Life and as you may be able to guess its based on the off-grid side of life at our finca. There’s stuff about reducing energy use, reducing waste, keeping poultry, water [...]
Just a quickie to let you know I’ve made it! This blog is now google’s number one search result for ‘manure wellies’. Gosh and I was happy being number eight in yahoo. But number one in google – surely there should be a way to earn oodles of cash out of this thing? No? Oh [...]
[ad#co-1] So what do you think? It’s been driving me nuts that the header image on this theme wasn’t my own. I still kind of liked it. The trees were reminiscent of the spot around the spring we get our drinking water from. But still, they weren’t ours. So after a few hours of faffing, [...]
[ad#co-1] It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been a bit lazy of late with supplying pictures of what’s going on. Silly really as I prefer blogs which provide some pictographic content. So from now on I will really try to spend a bit more time making the blog more colourful. And for now [...]
Phew, I did it – I’m now a wordpress.org, not a .com blog! Well to be honest D did the big bit I got totally stuck on but I have tweaked and think I’m about ready to embark on my new blogging mountain life in a Catalan garden. Think I need to have a lie [...]
Well, this blog is supposed to be a kind of rural diary – about all things green and rustic but I need to have a quick moan about the modern technical wizadry that fuels this cyberworld I’m writing in… I just don’t understand it. I hope to migrate this blog to my own domain as [...]
