Kate Pullen

Phewey, it is so hot at the moment. It’s difficult to know what to do. Last week I was getting up at 5 in the morning to work, as during the afternoon it is really too hot to do anything.…

In the cause of journalistic clarity, I must clarify that the tomatoes that I referred to in an earlier post were not ours – Ian got them from Mike. Our harvest so far consists of one tomato, one festering pepper…

I forget to say that I am writing some ‘how to dye’ articles for a man who’s branching out his grout and cement dye business to include fabric and yarn dyes. He wanted permission to reprint some articles I already…

This is ’emigre’ week, when traditionally, a series of events have been put on for people who return to the village for August (perhaps it is felt that people who have moved to Barcelona, Madrid etc, need an exhibition of…

No, not ours. Ian got given a bucket full. We’re making them into tomato puree.

Nearly. We were sat in my workshop and heard a loud clucking. Went to investigate and found that one of the cockerals had got its head stuck in the garage door. Luckily we managed to get it out and only…

It now transpires that Ian uses one of his old socks to filter our water when we fill our water container from the pillar. I cannot think how bad the threat of things getting into the water must be to…

I’m not sure which disturbed me the most, the house falling down or waking to find a Spanish man in the bedroom. As it so happened, neither was true, but a disturbing way to wake up. It transpires that the…

I did something that you should never do yesterday. I worked out how much our one tomato had cost us, and it came to 16 euros. That includes compost and fertilizer for all of our plants – but I am…

Saturday a snake appeared from under the bed. Aaaaaagh We think that it has been outside for a while, as Schnookems (who is not the brightest button) has been staring at the wall outside the new bedroom for – it…