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Flights of Fancy
Posted on 6:30pm Wednesday 2nd June 2010
A fun day out for the family at the sky events with balloons, acrobatic Cessna's, kites and mad men with petrol driven parachutes strapped to their backs. A fun day out for the family.
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MAY 2010
Posted on 6:31pm Sunday 2nd May 2010
A day out to get plants, with a surprise famous personage and lots of food, friends and wine.
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Spring has Sprung
Posted on 12:30pm Saturday 10th April 2010
Easter chocolate, a free buffet and a demonstration of "Sugar imitating Glass".
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2010 - Records broken
Posted on 6:16pm Saturday 13th March 2010
Winter chills, olive pruning as spring arrives only to retreat once more but we had daffodils on March 1st.
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Did the earth move for you?
Posted on 4:17pm Monday 1st February 2010
The earthquake, mowers and the men who want Ferrari grass cutters to keep up with the overnight growth and summery of FAQ's
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The Italian Job
Posted on 10:26am Thursday 31st December 2009
Judgment day in court,extream weather but the new bath and wood burner are fitted to thaw us out.
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Oct, Nov, Dec 2008
Posted on 10:27am Wednesday 2nd December 2009
From summer drought to winter drown with olives, oil and festas.
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2008 New Year
Posted on 12:17pm Friday 2nd October 2009
New year, New accountants, New Olive grove, New bio-mass heating System and a visit to A&E.
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April, May & June 2008
Posted on 5:41pm Monday 31st August 2009
Opening of the Apartment after a paper trail and a show down between the town planning and the geometra. Free food and great views and a mystery discovered.
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Of Mice and Men
Posted on 8:00am Saturday 1st August 2009
The new doors and windows are installed and there is a dissapointing olive harvest but Truffles and Christmas make up for the loss.
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The Games People Play
Posted on 5:46pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Local events, carpenters and a visit by a dog who ate our lunch followed by the storm of the decade. Who said life was boring?
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Pain in the Asp
Posted on 8:00am Monday 1st June 2009
Easter Chocolate surprises are followed by the local wildlife moving in and the mob trying it on.
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Michael & Peggy Hunt moved from Pembrokeshire to Italy two years ago. They now live on the Tuscan / Umbrian border in Locanda Delle Rose among 300 olive trees, enquiring neighbours and over-familiar wildlife. "Oddly, it is not so different from Pembrokeshire at all, " they say. "We have felt at home from the very beginning. "
