Month July 2013

No More Mrs Nice Guy

This year I’m taking a hard line with students who misbehave or don’t come to classes without telling me first. I’ve so far sent texts to two parents about bad behaviour of students (super-bad behaviour, the students were fighting each…

Fibre!

Here’s what a kilo of cashmere and silk looks like! We got it from Germany from a wholesale place and I was able to buy a lot more with my money. This was with my birthday money and i think…

What’s the Point?

Rosie really does understand dedication to duty, though has some difficulty recognising parrots. Since moving into his new cage, Larry’s been stared at almost constantly by Rosie who’s taken great pains to remind us that she’s a pointer. However, Rosie…

Larry’s New Home

We finally got Larry’s new home ordered on Sunday and it arrived this morning, sin his Happy Bone parrot toy. He wasn’t in any great hurry to cross the threshold and we eventually had to resort to shooting him with…

A Young Visitor

Storks are meant to bring good luck, so hopefully this one on the roof won’t let us down. I was alerted by Rosie barking frantically and was in the process of telling her off for barking at the house next…

Hot!

It’s hot at the moment. For the last three days we’ve had a yellow alert for heat. We do have some shading to hang in the patio, however it’s difficult to find time to do it when it’s not too…

It’s been a sad week

without Bob. While I knew he was very ill, I just assumed he would get better and even when we were at the vets for the last time, part of me was expecting the vet to say he was getting…