If you remember I was very concerned about what the saniflo toilet was going to look like. I am delighted to be able to say the Saniflo is in, it’s working and it looks absolutely fine. Because of the great idea to put the pipe through the wall and up the other side it is much more...

I mentioned the other day that I had been enjoying a lot of menus del dia recently. While I always appreciated Portuguese food I have recently grown to really love it and want to eat it all the time. Lunch time here in Portugal is a sacred part of the day. While they don’t have long...

This is actually our second home renovation project that we have undertaken abroad (in a country with a different language and culture to the one we are most familiar with). Renovating houses is far from easy at the best of times, throw language and cultural barriers into the mix and things...

I cannot bring myself to take any pictures and show publicly what our house looks like right now so i’ve given you one of the view instead. Yes I’m excited about the results and yes the builders continue to do an excellent job but the state of the house right now, or more...

The olives that I lovingly picked then made slits in and cared for over the course of a week look like Botulism central. There is no way I am eating those. They look horrible. I have been looking forward to marinating my olives for months so refuse to let this little hiccup stand in my way....

Last night I made a pie, a chicken, leek and mushroom pie. It was very delicious but as always happens I was left with a load of pastry trimmings. Seeing as I’d so carefully unwrapped and unravelled the pastry I wasn’t going to let these bits go to waste so I put them carefully...