While we were offline

Lots has happened; my Daughter Kate and her boyfriend Luke visited for the week leading up to Christmas, excellent timing as the rain stopped and the sun came out for the whole of the time they were here. We had some fine frosty starts although the car thermometer was reading +3C before dawn, the Arum lilies survived fine unlike in Cornwall where ours melted at the slightest sign of frost, we think maybe the mist floating through caused it rather than a hard ground frost. As you can see I have been doing more logging too.
By lunchtime most days it was feeling like early summer in the UK and we visited a fair few beaches despite most of us being ill most of the time.

Action men at Cedeira


Resting at Ortigueira
Low tide on Ortigueira estury


Kate and Luke at Pantin

We met Mark, an English friend, on the beach at Pantin, he spotted us from the sea and popped over to see us..here is a pic of him paddling out in the rip.
Rowan learned a new trick on the trampoline eek unfortunately he managed to handstand off the edge a couple of days later but was unhurt. Kate and Luke trying to chill in the sun.
The Fragas were looking good ..the river was flowing well, Luke tried to fall in
And this old mill by the Monesteiro de Caveiro is a place I would like to spend some more time although it was a bit scary with two adventure boys rampaging around. Jen and Rowan are on the bridge that has an alarmingly unprotected long drop to the river.

Christmas was fun...

I stood on a rusty nail while gathering wood for the Christmas fire wearing slippers... so was hobbling for a few days.

Wildmite/Prince Rollo is now very friendly although still runs a mile when I am around.
Christmas over and our colds thrown off we immediately all got ill again, Jen lost her voice and Rowan was very feverish but we are all recovering now and looking forward to more visitors on the 2nd Jan.
Oh and its my 50th birthday today - feliz cumpleanos to me - how time flies when you are having fun.