Kate Pullen

Thursday morning…

When I come back from a visit to the UK, I often feel that it is inappropriate to start my blog post by saying that a good time was had. However, to say otherwise doesn’t seem right – particularly this…

OK – I should be catching up on writing assignments. I have 6 incredibly dull articles to write today – and true to form – I thought they could just wait a few minutes while I do some other very…

It’s nice when nice things happen. Today I was surprised to see in my PayPay account that my balance had gone up by 10%. Sterling has fallen back against the dollar, and as I get paid in dollars and I…

Sam and Blackbeard

I’m still helping That Child with his English. And I am constantly learning new things myself – how did I ever learn English? It’s so bloomin’ complicated! Here’s a new one that I never knew that I knew – adverbs…

We went to the Feria today in Zafra. It was very good, you could buy anything from a quail to a prize bull or an egg cup to a crane – or flamenco dress to leather chaps, paella stove to…

Ian came back from the shop with onions the size of small balloons. He said he hadn’t picked the really big ones! We stuffed them for tea, and this was quite a success. They were so big that Ian had…

We needed to get Sam some more food and sausages so, instead of going to Zafra, we went to Azuaga. This is on the Cordoba road past the wildlife place at Berlanga. We haven’t been for a long time –…