Victoria Twead nagged her long-suffering partner, Joe, into moving from England to Spain in 2004. They settled into a tiny mountain village in Andalucía, became reluctant chicken farmers and ended up owning probably the most dangerous cockerel in Spain. Victoria’s hilarious record of their culture shock and life with the villagers is told in her book, ‘Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools’ and the sequels.
My heartfelt thanks for all the wonderful emails and messages voicing concerns about the recent bushfires, smoke and Joe’s health. By an amazing stroke of luck, Joe was overseas when the bushfires took hold, and there he was forced to stay.
When we moved to Australia, I knew it would often be hot but, I confess, droughts and bushfires scarcely crossed my mind. Then, last week, a “catastrophic” fire alert was issued, and it was terrifying.
It was a tricky one, this book. Two Old Fools Down Under took me two years to write and is the sixth book in the Old Fools series. I laughed and cried all over my poor laptop as I worked. Parts of the book were painful to write, while other bits made me chuckle all over again.
Can you think of a caption for this picture and win a prize?
Australia is heating up, and everybody is finding ways to cool off. This is Lola with her three feisty little friends, Benny, Sylvester and Gracie.
Yes, I’m sorry. I’ve just finished number six in the Old Fools series, Two Old Fools Down Under. It’s strange really, when I think that I wrote Chickens ten years ago, and I thought it would be the only one. A stand-alone book. A one-off. Hah!
It’s been nearly three years since the last Old Fools book was published, and a lot has happened. Now, I’m closing in on the last chapters of “Two Old Fools Down Under”, and as usual, they seem to be writing themselves. Things I had forgotten come flooding back and pour out as I type.
If you’ve read Horizon Fever 1, you’ll know that my Uncle Archie was not just a famous explorer but also a bit of a rogue. In fact, as Joe was going through Archie’s old scrapbooks, he discovered that Archie was sentenced to three months hard labour by a judge in Innisfail, Queensland.
The whole Old Fools series has been updated and reformatted with chickens walking through the pages…
However, there are not chickens, but sulphur-crested cockatoos in the latest book, Two Old Fools Down Under.
If you have read Two Old Fools in Spain Again, you may remember that the Salvation Army contacted us and introduced us to Alice.
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