Month January 2025

I looked out of the window and saw a pony quite happily wandering up the road. It was early and dark and he was on his own so clearly he shouldn’t be out unsupervised. We were pretty certain we knew…

Sadly Barry the Lovebird (AKA Nutcracker) died overnight. She was nearly 10, which is about average for a lovebird. She had been having turns, like mini seizures or strokes, and one started yesterday which she didn’t come round from. We…

We have a pet flap in the front door. With the new stove we realized we’d be heating the kitchen for the hot air to just go out the door which we leave open. Although since the cold spell has…

There’s a house I sometimes go past in the mornings when it’s dark and I see what I thought looked like a goat stood on the window, but put it down to being dark and some strange shadows. Anyway, passing…

We lit the stove and it works! It works very well, probably better than we hoped for really. Ian’s looking at it nervously here as he’s just lit it and waiting to see what happens. It’s quite engineered, the fire…