Kate Pullen

A crowd of children came round on Monday night and we eventually worked out that they were asking about the kittens. Ian was remarkably quick thinking and told them to come back with their parents. It turned out that the…

Admittedly, Ian would have preferred that instead of wandering around with the camera I helped bail the house out – particularly as we were doing it for the second time in 3 hours, however I felt that this jumbo hail…

Kittens showing Ian how to use the new laptop. Look in the background and you’ll see we have found Nanny’s painting of Bridge Cottage.

Biff went off to her new home yesterday. It was a bit of a surprise, a young girl, her mum and granny came round to enquire if we had any kittens left. We got into a bit of a tizz…

Much to our surprise our peach tree generated two peaches. Unfortunately Billy ate one, but we got to the other before it fell off the tree and it was wonderful. I don’t think I would be exaggerating to say it…

We’ve got a new laptop, which means that we can listen to the radio and work outside in the evening which is quite nice. It also means we can spend more time together, and actually talk rather than sending messages…

Wow – over a week since I posted. Here’s an update of what we’ve been up to. We’ve bought an air conditioner – and needless to say the temperature has dropped. it is great even though it does sound like…

I cannot imagine how we would be feeling now, if we were still living in the UK with our animals. Well that’s probably not true. I think I know exactly how we’d feel. The imagination comes in when thinking about…

It has been hot. So hot that the needle went off the scale on our thermometer. Now, obviously the patio wasn’t 60 centigrade, but that is what the thermometer was measuring in full sun. It’s been around 45 or so,…