Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

Building Work

We’ve decided that we must be a lot more proactive with regards to the building work. We’ve actually never spoken direct to the builder to confirm the quote or discuss plans, instead we’ve passed on the very occasional message via…

Acclimitised

Ian and I have been congratulating ourselves on the fact we appear to be acclimatizing – to the weather – as we don’t seem to have suffered with the heat. We put this down to a number of things –…

Busts

Three roman busts were found in the roman remains up the road just outside Llerena. This is a clip from the paper:- The busts date from the first and second centuries and one of Trajan is of particular interest. A…

Blackbeard Mystery

Ian found Blackbeard cowering in the dark in the dressing room. He picked him up and BB was shaking. He didn’t seem to be injured, but he was very shaken and was walking with a limp. Luckily, BB is very…

English Lessons

I am giving English lessons to a young lad around the corner. He is 12 years old and has been studying English for 4 years. Obviously this means that he is now better than me. The difference between possessive adjectives…

InExtremadura

We’ve just relaunched InExtremdaura.com (). It still has one or two little tweaks required, however it is a bit improvement over the original version.

Pics

Princess Guncetta watching us debating whether she needed rescuing and the other pic is us getting ready for a dog trimming session – which is why with the exception of Billy they have all disappeared.

Everything in the Garden is…

…slightly brown and shriveled. I just don’t know how other people have lovely flower filled patios. I see them every day when we go for a walk and we come home and see our brown shriveled leaves. Unless everything is…