After our Christmas deluge, we have been treated to some dry conditions, sometimes under cloud but sometimes in sunshine. Naturally, this place looks a whole lot nicer under a blue sky. It is still cold, though, with overnight temperatures dipping to 5°C or 6°C. The daytime is climbing to the mid teens. The sun is 10° higher in the sky, here, than in the UK so, when you are in the sun, the radiant heat is very pleasant, even in the cool air.
We keep Frodo’s heating ticking over at night to help. I seem to be lucky in that the heating system is located beneath my bed – the longer of the two benches. Poor Francine’s side is noticeably cooler. I can’t offer to swap ‘cos the shorter side is just too short for me. A blanket will help.
After the disappointment of my first attempt at cooking pork secreto, we did manage to find another chunk, this time from an iberico pig, as it really should be. We still had half of the accompanying salad to use up so we tried again. This was a finer, thinner cut – presumably the pigs are smaller – and five minutes on each side made this attempt much more successful.
We have brought our cameras with us on the trip but thus far I have been wondering why. However, while I was preparing for camp duties including the joys of draining the waste water, I noticed a delightfully posed plume moth on Frodo’s driver-side door. It distracted me; I was happy to have an appealing subject for my camera. I was even happier to discover that this was a new species to me. It’s a Common Plume (Emmelina monodactyla). I have a couple of plume moths in my modest collection but not this one, despite it being our most common.
Time to welcome in the new year by changing the file names on the cameras.
Feliz año nuevo..
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