Disappointingly, our weekend of fun has had to be canceled as we couldn’t buy any vermiculite. This is the mica stuff that normally gets added to compost – however for bead making it is used for arresting the cooling of the beads and therefore stops them from fracturing. Boo. We could also use ceramic fibre blanket – but if we can’t get vermiculite and we know what we are looking for – goodness knows what sort of blanket we might end up with with the corresponding disasters…
I was very disappointed when I looked at the online diary this morning, that we both keep, and saw that Ian had struck through our ‘fun’ heading for the weekend – I did point out that we could still have fun, but he just gave me one of those strange looks. Mind you, I want to make a dressmakers dummy from duct tape and that entails Ian mummifying me. That ought to cheer him up.
I am still suffering from shock. We’ve only seen two rabbits since we’ve been here. Until Thursday night that is, when our rabbit exposure was increased by 25%. Oh yes, I have worked that calculation out correctly. Half a rabbit appeared on our bed – and even worse than that it was on my side. We have to lay the blame at Davy’s feet really, as I don’t think that any of the others would do this. We did see Dookems ‘chasing’ a rat when Jim and Viv were here, and that basically entailed Dookes jumping around out of the rats way – he was skipping round in a less than ‘cat the efficient hunter’ sort of way.
We’ve created a bit of a monster with Bob. I got up in the night at about 4.30 and as I headed back to bed I noticed Bob sat primed and ready by the gate ready to go out for his walk. We haven’t had to prise him out from under the duvet for a few days now. We’ve been on his keep fit campaign for almost three weeks and the transformation in him has been significant.
One of our kittens has got a gunky eye. Now known as Guncan, he is probably going to be the one that stays with is.
It’s funny how wrong you can be about some things isn’t it. The Spanish for ‘I think’ is Pienso, and we’ve noticed ‘Piensos’ on a lot of buildings. Obviously, following this through – we thought ‘Pienso’ = think, hence ‘Piensos’ = lots of thoughts ie research. We were confirmed in this by seeing the word on big and small buildings, vans, lorries and then strangely sacks. I was a little bemused by the fact you could buy sacks full of thoughts but got no help from the dictionary. When we checked with Adelardo all was clear – Piensos is pig-nuts, ie pig food. The reason why we see so much of this word is because of the importance of the pig industry here. I am hoping that I’ve not told someone that I will ‘pig nut the market’….
Aaaaah – and I nearly forgot – the word for ‘sand’ is confusingly similar to the work for ‘flour’. We nearly ended up with a trailer of churros flour last week (did Tony think we were setting up in business against him…..?).