Month August 2013

As well as doing a great painting job, Jesus also provides us with no end of fun in the pun line. Today’s relates to the fact that he has taken our chickens – with our permission of course! He already…

…us from having to paint the living room. He’s done most of the work, but is returning later to touch up a few bits. This is our freshly white ceiling. We obviously had to keep out of his way, so…

I’ve developed a nice system of helping the young ones who are yet to learn the English alphabet spell words. I use my own phonetic alphabet using words that they learn early on, so if I tell them how to…

Our feeding up Anubis campaign is working well, although we could be creating a monster. We are trying to feed her on demand – and she has now decided to be quite demanding! However at least she is asking for…

Little Anubis hasn’t been putting on weight so she is on a feeding regime now. We think she may have been struggling with the dried food, so we’ve got some canned cat food for her. We can’t get kitten food,…

A week ago, Anubis was still living on the street, but she’s adjusted rather well to life in a house. Last night was her first night out with the run of the whole house, though I think she slept under…

Larry gives us hours of pleasure. Whether he is falling off his perch, trying to bite Rosie’s nose, getting over excited by a new toilet roll in his cage, there is always something going on in his little parroty world.…

aug_08, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. We tend to leave the house at about 6.45 for our pre-breakfast walk in the country and we’re now leaving the house in the dark. On the plus side, we do get to…

  Once more Extremadura, the Spanish region that spawned many of the greatest of the conquistadores, has produced a great explorer. Anubis has built up the courage to get onto the floor and explore, despite the attentions of the other…

Anubis has been spending more time around the rest of the animals for a couple of days and, while still nervous, is coping quite well. In a shocking turn of events, she appears to have taken a fancy to my…