Casalinho

Author: Andrea

  • Reasons to be Cheerful: After the Rain

    After the rain comes the most marvelous rainbow. Proof that the sun must be up there somewhere! We’re still hunting for the pot of gold 🙂  

  • Our Postcards Now Available

    I’m so very pleased to have this new postcard collection available for sale to our supporters (and anyone else!). Full colour, high quality images on the front, with the back printed for use as a postcard (or put them on your wall!) The majority of the photos were taken by the most wonderful Marjolein Hillage more »

  • Revista Ancestral

    If you read Portuguese (or even if you can just use translation software!!), take a look at this new project from our friends Filipa and Pedro. Editora Ancestral is a small Portuguese project with the mission of publishing both books and a quarterly magazine – Revista Ancestral – focused on the recovery of ancestral knowledge more »

  • Mole Comes Visiting

      Stumpy the not-so-clever dog spends his days digging up the garden when he’s not pretending he’s a goat. This week I have TWICE caught him with a perfectly unharmed mole in his mouth. We’ve no objection to moles in the garden, as one of the things they’ll be happy to eat is the young more »

  • April Foraging Challenge

    Springtime is absolutely my favourite time of year for foraging so I set myself the mini-challenge of cooking with as many foraged foods as possible during April. The majority of items in this album were fresh, but as I preserve a great deal in the plentiful months I have used some stored foraged foods too. more »

  • Bye Babies

    We’ve bid a fond farewell to this year’s goat kids this week. Lovely though goats are, I was finding that I had too many to manage alone when it came to walking them. So the kids, along with some of the adults, have been rehomed elsewhere and I’ll be concentrating on a smaller group for more »

  • Local Economy Day at Monte dos Carvalhos

    This week we attended a marvelous open day at a local project, Monte dos Carvalhos. The theme of the event was Local Economy so we were asked if we’d like to put together a stall showcasing some Casalinho goodies. After a shared lunch there were simultaneous tours in English and Portuguese. Barbara at Monte dos more »

  • Stumpy is Not a Clever Dog

    This is Stumpy. Stumpy is not a clever dog. Stumpy thinks he is a goat and copies everything the goats do, to the extent of getting his head stuck in the goat shed fence *even though he has no horns*!!!  

  • Yarn Bombing Góis

    This wasn’t what I expected to see in the centre of Góis! All part of an urban exhibition apparently, Colorir o Pombal, running until September.                    

  • Pheonix Platanus

    No it’s not a new variety, but one growing through the wreck of the old. This astonishing plane tree (platanus) is in the Parque de Cerejal at Góis.