Month June 2010

We’ve got a snake living in the barn door – eeek! It’s a small one, so hopefully it will make it’s way somewhere else to settle …

While this might look like there has been a terrible accident, Babbity Bumble was in fact sleeping on the beanbag. It is quite unusual for a cat to lie like this, so I think it is a sign that she…

The kittens are settling in well. Babbity Bumble is just like her namesake, for ever buzzing around. I’ve found the Beatrix Potter books online – Mrs Tittlemouse (which is where Babbity Bumble appears) and Miss Moppet. They are currently spending…

We went to collect two kittens yesterday who were being fostered by the animal rescue center in Badajoz. The rescue centre is attached to the vet, so they only look after poorly animals there and volunteers foster the other animals.…

Last night the village under-10 football team came round to show us the trophy that they had just won. They are local champions. There was lots of cheering and shouting of ‘championes’. As the team members who scored a goal…

Ian calls my little class the Cult of Kate. Although, quite frankly, the Cult of Basil would probably be more appropriate. They quite often come round in the evening to see me (although we suspect it is really to see…

They are between three and four weeks old and coming along nicely. They are going through the fluffy leg-warmer stage at the moment!

My little class put on a special performance of the three little pigs for Ian. Somehow, during rehearsals, the end got changed so that the wolf was killed by immense screaming and being hit with pieces of paper. Obviously they…

It’s raining today, which was a bit of a surprise. We’ve been getting used to the big blue skies and warm weather recently and not checking the weather forecast. My workshop is nice and dry though, so we can see…

Here are some photos from the Corpus Christie parade yesterday in Zafra. We missed the one here, I think it was in the morning. I knew we missed it as a couple from my class came round with flowers in…