In with the new…
Happy new year to all our readers. We have been somewhat absent for the second half of 2015 and have vowed to put that right …so! In with the new….. […]
Category Archives: Eco lifestyle
A miserable day…
We try not to do miserable here too often. Once in a while, however, it has to happen. Storms all day, it looked like winter even though the temperature was […]
Building Work
In case anyone thought we had slowed down on the building/renovation work over winter, they will be glad to hear that the pace has now picked up again. Straight after […]
Sunny Weekend
This weekend has been one of surprise and variety that reminds us why we gave up the hectic life in the UK and moved out to Italy into the countryside. […]
Food.
We have had a good food week this week. Mainly thanks to Tessa Kiros’ lovely tuscan cookbook “twelve” (don’t tell our marchegiani friends!). A great risotto made with red wine […]
Siege mentality
I have never been in a siege, I hope never to be in a siege…but it does feel rather as I imagine it to be the day after a siege […]
Free Firewood
As promised in my last blog, an explanation of our fallen tree. We knew when we bought the house, that there was never going to be a shortage of firewood […]
Back to Work
So as our last friends abandoned us for blighty we no longer had any more excuses and it was back to work for us. John has kindly left me to […]
La Casetta
Yes we can now say that work on La Casetta is complete and thanks to Tony (an old friend of Martine’s) and his family who volunteered to be the guinea […]
Compost…
The chickens are in the compost heap, still alive and scratching I hasten to add, but in the compost heap. After having replanted the flowers outside the rental house five […]
