Kate Pullen

I’ve just come back from the supermarket and I understand enough to know that the main topic of conversation was asparagus. It is slow this year. Which, Ian and I both know as we’ve been out a few times looking…

The weather forecast showed snow today. Ha! we said, how unlikely is that? Well, not very is the answer (I think I have my double negatives right there), as we woke up this morning to snow. By this time last…

Ian kindly hit me on the head yesterday. He’d seen a mosquito. Much to my surprise there really was a mosquito. I think the lump on my head was from the mosquito bite, not Ian’s trying to swat it. This…

I have a wonderful new game that the pups and I are enjoying at the moment. They have got used to the fact that when we shut the door to the back room (kitchen-to-be), they can run back through the…

In case you wondered why I finished my last blog post so hastily, it was because Ian was hovering as we’d agree to go for a walk. The sun was – and indeed still is – shining, but the weather…

Yesterday we had amazing high winds. No rain, but very strong winds. We’d missed the ‘don’t go out unless you need to’ warnings and headed off to Azuaga to the supermarket and then had a picnic under a tree. We…

Ian and I have been mulling over whether this is the most rain that we’ve seen ever. And then I looked at our blog from last year and saw that we were saying exactly the same thing then – at…

Well, Ian has spent much of this week honing his impression of me falling over in the mud. Patently his memory is as flawed as his acting ability. He has missed totally the cried shout of ‘it’s ok to walk…

We went for a walk yesterday afternoon, returning to find that there was dancing at the nave. This seemed odd, but everything seems a little topsy-turvy this year. Carnival, which I thought was always celebrated before Mardi Gras, this year…