Month April 2014

This year, the annual tomato growing duties have fallen to me and so far just over half of the seeds planted have germinated. The seeds were a Christmas present from Ed and Emma and the Ukrainian Purple variety are my…

After a week or so of being very light with her eating and apparently picky, Milly has suddenly become a normal dog with her food! It is a bit of a relief, as although the vet said she was healthy,…

Having written about how good  Queenie is, she suddenly turned into a complete loon – otherwise known as a puppy. She went from walking round the house nicely to going everywhere full speed and full bounce – in a straight…

We took Milly to the vet last night as I wanted to get her checked. She has trouble with her back legs and I wanted to know whether the problem was a genetic problem with the knee joint that Yorkies…

This is is Millie, a two year old blind Yorkshire Terrier from a town a little north of Seville. She apparently lost her sight in an accident and Millie is short for Milagro, the Spanish word for miracle as she…

I’ve had some new students start over the last couple of weeks. One of which is the little nun who was hitting the pope over the head in the photo that Mum took of carnival. But she’s not so little…

I think that the biggest challenge we face with Queenie is training ourselves. It is so easy to forget that she can’t hear us and shouting ‘no’ doesn’t do any good at all. Hand signals are also of limited use…

Ian, in a rather self satisfied way, pointed out that he had written the past two blog posts. To which I pointed out that out of the 1200 blog posts written, I have written over 1160. To which Ian muttered…

After eight years, we’ve finally made it to the Jerte Valley to see the spring cherry blossom. It’s one of the first traffic jams we’ve experienced in our time here and the photo does not do it justice. The terraced…