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Oranges are not the only fruit

In the words of the 1985 novel by Jeanette Winterson but it sure feels like it at the moment! They started to ripen and fall from the trees…

Seasons’ greetings

It’s Christmas, how did that happen? One minute we were sweltering in the motorhome on our way down to Murcia and here we are, Christmas 2020! With a…

Lavender’s Blue dilly dilly

A month on and time for another blogpost. Today is the first anniversary of Ditto joining our family. Who knew that a year after arriving in Bolton, he’d…

Living with geckos………

We’ve been here in our new home almost 6 weeks now. Still occasionally having to pinch ourselves that this is actually happening. There’s not a great deal of…

New Home, new Country!

We made it. In the middle of a global pandemic and in our 8th and 7th decades respectively, Nigel, the whippets and I have moved house and are…

A Different World

I have neglected my blog lately and now I come back to it in a completely different world to where I left off which was introducing Ditto in…

Three but not for long……Introducing Ditto!

Introducing Ditto the whippet who arrived on 3rd November 2019 We had only been home from the boat in mid October for a short time when we decided…

And then we were three ……..

At the beginning of October we are just days away from winterising Meander as another enjoyable boating season in the Netherlands comes to an end. A lovely island…

A very different winter

One or two storks!! Here we are in the Western Algarve region of Portugal again but this time we have rented an apartment instead of driving all the…

A boating season in the Netherlands

It’s been a hot one!! In the middle of July when I started to write this blog post we were on the outskirts of Amsterdam moored in the…