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Thunder today. Saw some lightning but not that nearby. Rain for most of the evening which was good, better than the usual few spots which barely wet the ground.

Are we a bit sloshed? 🤣 🤣

There's been some cork harvesting going on

I meant to say after that pic of the wasps nest you posted that they look like different wasps to the ones we get here. The nests they build are open and have hexagonal compartments. Sounds like your ones 'home' if they are going back to where the nest was, I've never seen them do that here...

Yes its all a compromise really, we persevere with satellite because the internet's not up to streaming full time where we are in either Spain or Portugal, it would be only 4G since there are no copper cables or fibre. The satellite Internet is good and we use it for streaming occasionally, but...

I was slightly surprised that the original oven had a plug/socket and I used the same plug on the replacement oven. The plug said 'max 3680w' on in and the oven is rated 2700w so that seems OK. The socket is on a dedicated breaker. The messing about with cookers by tenants you mention is a...

Ordinarily it would seem like a good idea but the Sky+HD box does not cater for any form of dish pointing, or LNB Diseqc switching for that matter, or extra channels outside the Sky channel line-up in a very user friendly way. Having said that it is the functionality of the Sky box which keeps...

Now that's an issue and part of the reason for so many dishes. When they launched the new Astra 2 satellites we lost the UK beam, since the new sats have a deliberately very steep drop off in signal outside the footprint. Since then every now and then another channel moves from the southern...

Mornin' (well, ish) Often mucking about with satellite dishes here and have some pole brackets to sort out but otherwise not a lot of dish action. Set up one temporarily on a fence pole the other night, was pleased to get the sat after a couple of minutes, remembering roughly where to point it...

Thanks, fortunately not. There are very strict rules in Portugal regarding care of the land and vegetation within certain distance of a house, due to the fires which have occurred. It's quite cool at night which is a relief, after a hot 5 hour drive, but it was quite sultry and humid this...

Reminds me, there's a screw in one of our tyres... it hasn't gone flat but ought to do something about it.

Igualmente feijão velho! :)

The other day we were talking to a neighbour who works the land properly, about his grape harvest and he said it is really bad this year. They are still all unloading the crates and filling them as they get the harvest in, as seems to happen every year regardless, but he said they are few, and...

That is terrible. Apart from the waste of good grapes and what they would have gone on to be (wine mostly, I guess), not to mention livellhoods, it must be devastating for the growers. I know livestock farmers for example don't view their herds like pets and take a pragmatic view of their...

Greetings everyone from Portugal.

Loads of thunder & lightning tonight.

They would do some damage...

:oops: I used a hired one and fortunately it didn't break it, or the straps. They were long straps so I put them twice around the engine and kept the jib as short as possible. The front springs are 11 leaf, I assume the suspension is hard so that the front end doesn't wallow.

Nightmare. We've had 'lightning question mark' in the forecast for a couple of days so the well is disconnected again... Had three power cuts as well during the day, always a nuisance but worse when it's down to a storm.

I thought it might have been a long shot but there was always a possibility. The thing is, they generally like drains because it's the water they are after, apart from shelter. If there is no source of water and no source of food, there will be no rats. I've also heard it said that if there...