olives, dogs and the odd pig...

Olives '11

My blogs posts are like buses- you wait ages for one, and then three come along at once!!
I've been (quite rightly!) nagged by a few people to keep up with the blogging- so I promise to make more of an effort and post less erratically!!

Sooooooooo here we are again- with the olive harvest- its' just come around oh so quickly!!! The weather has been terrible recently- very stormy so we have lost a few on the floor but otherwise the harvest is looking fairly good!

 A break in the weather meant we could have a fantastic day picking in the autumn sunshine. These are the days we treasure- and what being here on this old quinta is all about.

We've had some help from Ish- as she is here at the moment- tempted her with a roast duck dinner and a couple of tankards full of black velvet- how could she refuse!!

PURO launch

Thanks to everyone who came along to our exhibition. It was a lovely opportunity to show our friends what all the soap fuss has been about!

We received lots of wonderful feedback and Ishbel and I were even asked for our autographs!!

We're all still buzzing from our fantastic evening!!

No rest for the wicked tho'- up the next morning wrapping soaps for a local shop and then straight into the olive harvest!

November 1st

We just had to go and have a look at the cemetary on November 1st- All Saints Day. all the locals put flowers and light candles on the gravestones of their lost love ones.

I thought it perhaps sounded a bit depressing but the sight of the beautiful cemetary all lit up was totally amazing.

sky, parties and lazy dogs

A couple of photos of the amazing sunsets we've had recently.

We've been partying as usual- this is a birthday cake we made for Cris who Paul builds swimming pools with- it's supposed to be a pool construction site!

Tose also had a birthday and i'm still trying to learn to dance but Gloria does have to watch her feet!

All too much for lazy dogs..