An absolutely wonderful Scots Adventure .

Posted late. The power people have been working on the village electricity connection and it has irritatingly been on and off all day. Every...

  The Met Office forecast calls for clear skies and constant sunshine. Down South temperatures are set to reach 30 degrees. Instead we get a...

The farmers wife and the wife of the Portugese professor come laughing ( and almost skipping ) along the farm track. 'Great news ! We...

The headlines in the weekend papers decidedly dour. It all seems to be happening  a long way from here but large helicopters intrude on the ...

The weather yesterday was dire. Thunder and heavy roof pounding rain. By lunchtime the cold front from the Atlantic and the warm front over ...

A week ago almost no one in Europe had heard of Senator Alex Padilla . Now his name is being bandied about everywhere. On the radio this mor...

  The track that runs from the potato barns down to the doocot bordered with geraniums. This year is clearly a bumper year for geraniums and...