Month September 2010

The DHL man came with our kitchen appliances on Monday (yey!). In his excitement, Basil’s front went in one direction and his back legs in the other. Unfortunately he couldn’t get up onto his back legs after this. In a…

Ian was a little surprised to be offered a home visit from the virgin. As he recovered from the shock, he realized that the nice people at the door were asking if we’d like a visit from the statue of…

Today Manuel started – and finished – on the wall in what was the garage and will soon by our outdoor kitchen. It won’t go right the way up, the main thing is to make a divide between where we’ll…

To be delicate, Batman’s irregular toilet habits, or indeed complete lack of them, was becoming a problem so we decided to take him to the vets. We took him to our vets in Llerena, who were no doubt delighted to…

Fox that we saw when we were cycling towards Bienvenida last week Llerena from a different view point, we were cycling towards it via country lanes. Me! Llerena is in the background

We’re getting ever closer to our kitchen. We’re buying the electrical appliances this week, which means we have to pull our fingers out and decide how we want the units to look. We’re currently thinking of a ‘cocina de obra’…

I am recovering from a morning of manualidades with my class. They go back to school next week so I said instead of a class today we’d have a morning of crafts. There were only three of them as I…

Manuel is getting on well with the sun terrace. The roof is nearly on. We wanted to sneak out and climb onto the roof when they finished today to take a look and see what it looks like from up…

We were pleased to see Batman sat in a shoe box yesterday. This may seem odd, however a cat in a box is a very typical site, all our cats love sitting in boxes. If there’s a box on the…