Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

Interesting Fact #1

Since we’ve stepped up our activity on FreeNeedle etc, we’ve been looking more closely at what makes things tick. Guess what the second most popular thing is that people search for on FreeNeedle at the moment…?? It’s ‘owl’. So apparently…

Shrivelled Olives

Last Sunday we went for a walk and commented on some olive trees that we saw with tiny olives. We were musing as to whether these were a special type of olive. However it transpires that they are normal olives…

Vigilante

We’ve had the pleasure, over the last couple of nights, of children pushing our front door. Because we have no internal doors, not even the temporary ones to which we had grown most fond, it is very easy to get…

More Door Frames

I told you we were fixated with our door frames. Here’s a picture with Ian giving a sense of proportion to the door frame. Look at Tib’s eyes in the background – you can see why cat’s eyes used to…

If I spoke Chicken

…then I think my ears would be burning. Needless to say that our broody hen took great exception to being taken out of her nest and locked out of the barn. While I don’t speak Chicken, the gist of what…

Broody Hen – Drastic Action

We’re going to have to take drastic action with our broody hen. She has been broody for several weeks now, and it looks like she just thinks she is hatching invisible elephant eggs. From what I’ve read we need to…

Floods

Well, when we were listening to the news about the flooding in Cumbria, I thought I’d take a look at our blogs from when Carlisle flooded – We went to Carrefour yesterday to buy a new monitor for my…

Shiny Things

Last night we sat and marveled at our shiny cutlery, glasses and saucepans. Unfortunately, as our plates are plastic, we were unable to wash them in our new dishwasher, but we’ll look to get some new terracotta plates over the…

MakeForBusiness

Make for Business has been launched. It might be a bit rough round the edges still, so it’s still in beta really, but here it is anyway – MakeForBusiness – let us know if there are any oddities! In case…

Nesting Box

The chickens, well our one laying one as the other is still broody, still refuse to use their lovely nesting box. Here is Spot’s preferred laying place.