Welcome to this diary blog about life in Spain with donkeys. The equusasinus.net blog was preceded by the brotherlapin.wordpress.com blog, now defunct but can still be seen.
Part 1 of the story of a small village fighting to stop an industrial giant destroying the environment. I count the days from Sunday 14th May, the day when my life changed here in Orxeta. Here in the silence of the Xarquer Valley. It is exactly three weeks, at 6 o’clock this evening that the … More Dynamite delivery one Sunday in May
Happy Easter to all! It has been a busy week for Aitana. Her front hooves have been increasingly ‘vertical’ for several years due to retraction of tendons and I have discussed this with both the vet and our regular farrier for some time. Finally the time had come to take some action, since Aitana was … More New shoes and Easter bonnets
After two weeks of insulting Europeans the USA has successfully turned us against them. That was the moment when we said Goodbye America. For me, the final straw was a cruel and disgusting remark about a mule that came from a US general. The American attacks on Europe began at the Munich Security Conference, with … More Goodbye America
Here is my film review, in the format prepared for publication in Where Peter Is – an online Catholic publication. Update 22 April 2025: I wrote this in March and Pope Francis died on 21 April, so a real conclave follows and my guess is that it will be every bit as fraught as the … More “Conclave” – a film review
We live in spectacular mountain scenery here in Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, south-eastern Spain. It is more than eight years since I moved my donkeys here to ‘El Parral’ which is just at the end of the Jurassic spine of Castallets, down there in the shadows in the lower right-hand side of … More Aitana: what’s behind my donkey’s name?