Month November 2010

Jumble Sale, Bike Rides and Kitchen

It was the annual jumble sale this weekend. Which involves a few British people staring forlornly at a few Portuguese people who are staring bemusedly at a pile of junk. True to form, I think we accounted for a good…

Limping Davy

Having said that everyone was ok after the crash of the kitchen cupboard, we noticed that Davy was limping and unable to jump very high. Davy is normally able to jump onto the fridge where their food is with no…

The Fall of the Kitchen Cabinet

Our kitchen cabinet fell off the wall on Friday. It is a very large cabinet and was quite full. Amazingly all that broke was one egg, and even more amazingly, Ian happened to be stood right by it and managed…

Another Picnic

Yesterday we went for another lunch bike ride and picnic. This time we went to what we think is an old quarry. It’s actually less that two kilometers away, so we were easily able to be there, back and picnic…

Pumpkin Soup and Quince Cheese

Ian and I have been busy making pumpkin soup and quince cheese. Ian has been making the soup from a huge pumpkin that one of my class give us and I have been making quince cheese from some quinces we…

Pirata Settles In

Pirata is settling in well. He is very confident and doesn’t get fazed by much. Ian wonders if Pirata can determine light and shade. Certainly he does sometimes seem to ‘look’ at things. I’m not really sure of how things…

Cat Trees

We went ahead and bought a couple of cat trees. A small one for Pirata and a big one for the rest. Needless to say – the box was much more interesting – you can see Tib’s tail as she…