What a Difference a Week Makes!
Last Tuesday I got a message on my phone from someone who wanted to see the house, they came round on Thursday and the photo is me cutting down the ‘for sale’ sign on Monday! Last week I had even…
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The Swimming Pool is Open & Tomatoes
Last year the swimming pool was closed for the summer. This was a mix of covid and a lack of water – so it is good news on both accounts that the swimming pool is open this year. It opened…
The Bird Whisperer
Barry the lovebird is very sweet, a very pretty brightly coloured hamster sized bird – but with a bite! She does a quite scary head / eye roll type thing when she spies a finger close to her cage. However,…
Photos of Asparagus (and the asparagus elf)
Earlier this year I took several photos during our asparagus outings. And in every one there’s an asparagus elf 😉
Bobbins after a busy day getting better
For the first time since last Monday, Bobbins settled on her own in her bed and enjoyed an apparently relaxing sleep! Bobbins improved significantly yesterday – so much so that when she went to the vet yesterday evening, they said…
Bobbins – On the Road to Recovery…?
Last weekend Bobbins had a couple of seizures. They were just the normal seizures, but as she was taking medication to stop them Ian thought he’d go to the vet and check if the dose needed to be increased. He…
The Mayor Invites Us for Our Vaccinations & Ian Battles the Pigeons
Ian’s been plagued by pigeons. There’s a couple of pigeons which seem to wait for him to go out of the barn door before they fly in and then coo at him in a taunting manner. So Ian’s taken to…
New Blog Home
We’ve moved! Well, at least the blog has. The reason why we moved the blog is because I got an email from Google who own the blogger platform we were using, telling us that they had deleted our ‘goodbye Sam’…
We can go out after midnight!
The nighttime curfew has been lifted which means we can now go out after midnight – while that won’t make a huge difference to us, as we move into the summer when people start living a semi-nocturnal life, I am…
Our Dawn Chorus
Our morning starts with a cockerel crowing in one of the neighbouring fields, and then the family of birds who live in the orange tree start to gently tweet amongst themselves… … and then Ludvig starts! From just after dawn…