Month October 2013

Alfie actually had the nerve to look quite indignant and stare at me in the hope that I’d stop Dumpling from sitting on him. He doesn’t seem to understand whose chair it is. Poor Sam has had his third fit…

Four days before visitors arrive and the car’s in the garage because the fan is not working and we have shut the windows for the first time since the spring because of rain! Unfortunately, little Dumpling is not used to…

Ian has said for a few weeks now that Anubis’s tail looks like it isn’t growing and I think that this is becoming increasingly apparent. She is now getting quite big, so her little curly tail looks like a little…

Dumpling has been impressing us with her ability to climb onto my chair. Alfie, however, has been decidedly unimpressed. This is his ‘I am not happy, what are you going to do about it?’ face.

Ian had a review at the hospital to receive the analysis of his lump. It was a ganglion, which was rather annoying as we could have avoided all this fuss by me just hitting him on the chin with a…

I’m trying to make ciabatta bread for the first time. This is it 4 and a half hours into it’s first six hour rising. This had better be good. So far, so good. It looks as if it could actually…

Yesterday heralded the start of my new year of classes. I leave it for a couple of weeks after school starts before I start classes after the summer to give them a chance to settle in. This year I’ve cut…