Month April 2013

Ian made a pie for tea on Sunday. It was very nice, consisting of broccoli, green beans, peas, cabbage, green pepper – and some sweetcorn. Ian gave it the name of ‘green and yellow’ pie, which immediately bought back memories…

Is what you would have thought if you had seen Ian and I at 11.30 last night tying ourselves up in knots in the dining room. And indeed, you would have been correct as Ian and I were warping my…

The naming decision has now been made and Rubén has become Alfie. Funnily enough, it’s only as I wrote the title of this post that it became apparent how appropriate a name it is. Pixie has come into season for…

Here is the latest addition to the household. He hasn’t a name yet, but his name at the perrera/pound was Ruben, which we will change as this was only given to him when he was taken in and, being deaf,…

Without a tv we miss out quite a lot of what goes on entertainmentwise. Therefore I only see this for the first time this week when I was looking for videos to use in class with teenagers. We’ve had…

I got a fit of the giggles in class last week, which surprised everyone. The giggles came about as I remembered a conversation that I’d had with Ian the previous week. One little girl was trying to get a reaction…

I said they were big…

As per normal, the temperatures changed from the winter lows to the summer highs instantly. At about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon when the temperature jumped up about 10 degrees. It really is like someone has switched a switch. So having…

Sadly, we took Herbie to be put to sleep this morning. He had started wheezing a bit last week and when we took him to be checked, the tumour had almost completely overrun his lung. His drug regime was changed…