Spain for Steel

We are seven km from the border with Spain, and then another seven or so km to the nearest town, Villanueva del Fresno, where Mike goes to buy steel - today was more fence posts and to make two ladders, one for the bunk bed in the North Wing, and another to go up and look at the batteries in the chimney attic (after years of me manoeuvering round a step ladder in our tiny kitchen).

Villanueva is famous (not very famous, as even Spaniards in nearby Badajoz never seem to have heard of it) for its fungi festival in March. Gurumelos, aka amanita ponderosa, grow under the holm oaks, whose acorns the black pigs are fattened on. At the entrance of the town is this island, featuring the oaks, the acorns, the pigs, and the fungi. All made in steel, which is what we mostly go there for.

Gratefuls:
- an outing and a more relaxed day
- Mike doing a load of strimming, was beginning to feel like we were living in a jungle
- our wood burner, still fairly cool at night