Happy new year!

We had a quiet night at home, went outside to watch the midnight fireworks and then watched the UK celebrations on tv at 1am. Apparently there was a "do" for Noche Vieja (new years eve) in Yator with free drinks but we didn't find out till yesterday! By all accounts it was very quiet, and also cold - no heating in the village hall :(

We are starting our olive harvest this coming week, hopefully the weather improves. It's been trying to drizzle today, the clouds are down low and it doesn't look too good. Some locals have started their olives, they have walked across from El Golco - about half an hour walk - they have land here in Montenegro. There's only a footpath linking the two, but it's a lot further round by road.

Update on the sourdough bread.....we are going to try again when the spring comes, the temperature is up and down too much at the moment. It needs a constant temperature to grow well (21 apparently is best) so in a sunny window is ok, near the fire is ok, but during the night it's too cold. Although the starter grew, it took much longer than we expected and when I wanted to prove that for dough, couldn't get it to froth up no matter how warm it was. We never have the house at 21 degrees (unless of course it's July and August and we'd love it that cool then!) but come May or June it should work. So it's back to making the usual dough, that never has a problem rising.