Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle

Description

It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family give up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences", and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. However, laughter is the best medicine and a colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goat-herd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restore the family's faith in human nature and help them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain. Preliminaries......Page 1 CONTENTS......Page 3 1 SE VENDE......Page 7 2 GAS NUNS......Page 43 3 SHOTGUN SUNDAY......Page 67 4 ORANGE GROVE ANGST......Page 109 5 A DOG CALLED DOG......Page 148 6 NIGHTMARES FOR CHRISTMAS......Page 181 7 THE FLYING CHIMNEY SWEEP......Page 209 8 CITRUS SALES, TRACTOR TRIALS A RODENT RECIPE......Page 252 9 OLÉ HOGMANAY......Page 282 EPILOGUE......Page 309