We survived this morning’s craft session with 4 eight year olds. They made chocolate things (they were supposed to be truffles but looked more like something a reindeer might have left behind), a Christmas monster, a clothes peg angel, Christmas…
We’ve had our fire going in the back room now for 4 days, and are wondering how we ever lived without it. We had our new doors in situ for about 2 hours and wondered how we ever lived without…
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…
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…
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…
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…
…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…
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…
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…
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…