What a difference a year makes!

Looking back, this weekend a year ago we were getting up to 16 degrees in the morning and it was still 21 in the late afternoon. Today it hasn't got above 8.8. Needless to say the wood burners are alight so we are all warm and toasty.

It seems to be continually cloudy at the moment in the Alpujarras and although drizzle is forecast at least that hasn't happened. It does mean indoor things are getting done as it's not the sort of weather that makes you think I'll go outside and dig. The soil is probably too cold to plant up anyway, and there seems little point in digging and weeding now when it'll need doing again because after all this rain, the soil is still leaking water and the weeds are having a wonderful growing season.

We have had a day or two of dry warmish weather this past week and have been out with the dogs for an afternoon walk, a friend came up to use the internet as the bar with internet access in Yator has closed - not sure if it's a permanent closure or not - and we've been into Ugijar on the new super highway!  The state of the roads around the area is summarised here.

So to brighten up this gloomy day here are the latest pics of our new (or at least "in-progress") Alpujarran kitchen.

	The doorway has been rendered after the old doors were ripped out - four years ago! They weren't wasted though as they became the doors for my shed. The strange-looking contraption is our fruit-press that we use in wine-making.