Month May 2014

What Is Sleep?

We were very sleep deprived yesterday, thanks to not being able to have a wink of sleep due to Queenie behaving oddly all night. In fairness to her, I think something had spooked her and she was unable to settle…

Crack Open the Cava!

We’ve had a special bottle of cava in the fridge since earlier this year ready to crack open when we got a jewellery sale. Sadly, it’s remained there. However Ian got a statement from the Extremadura Artisaños people yesterday showing…

Round and Round She Goes…

…where she stops, nobody knows. This isn’t her most impressive session of running around the table, but it does give an idea. At full tilt, her back legs slide out on the corners and yesterday she also had to contend…

Rain

After a run of hot weather we had rain yesterday. Not a lot, but enough to bring the dust down, and to cool things down a bit. The back garden is looking good, with the pomegranate flowering, the honeysuckles and…

The Only Good Rat is a Dead Rat

Yesterday I moved most of the tomatoes out to one of the barns. This morning I discovered that rats or, possibly, mice enjoy tomato plants. They completely beheaded one plant and reduced another to a single leaf. Hopefully the latter…

Gosh

Can’t believe that it’s been over two weeks since I last wrote a blog. Good job Ian’s been on the case. The weather has turned hot, and the floor is warm when I stand outside at night with Milly who…

More Jasmine

After the combined canine/feline team scored a comprehensive victory in the first leg of the jasmine cup, I like to think that we’ve come back strongly in the second leg. Only time will tell just how deluded that I am!