Kate Pullen

So instead of carrot for the raindeer it is straw for the camel.

…. we are about to move. At the end of August just before we sold Mineral House,we were shortlisting what we were looking for in our house in Spain and were convinced that a farmhouse, with a few acres, near…

Well, we’ve had a good few days. Ian has had some freelance work from 4-Sq, and a couple of weeks ago met his old boss half way up the motor way and picked up his old work Apple Mac, so…

This time last week we were thinking about halloween parties. Jim and Viv were planning a party for the younger members of the family – and everyone was invited to bring some food for the meal. We made green slime…

We’ve been a bit shoddy on the BLOG front just recently. This is mainly because Ian promised he would write the next one and is reluctant to do so unless he has something interesting or funny to write about. Now…

Well, last night it rained in volumes like we hadn’t seen in a long time. It was just as the dogs were due to be walked – of course, so we waited a bit and then we all forlornly headed…

There are also a lot more slugs than we remember seeing in Cumbria. That must be the chickens, and perhaps wrong sort of terrain for slugs. But there have been some big juicey ones slurping their way across the path…

Another thing that we’ve noticed is Daddy Long Legs. There are lots of them and we hadn’t noticed that we’d not been aware of any in Min House. Now, is this becuase there weren’t any, or because the chickens etc…

Purely in the name of research, Ian and I have sampled these since we have moved back south. Interestingly – cheese and onion pie from Greggs 65p in Penrith, 85p in Poole, takeaway curry – nearly twice as much as…