Kate Pullen

We’re trying something different with the potatoes this year. Last year they got blight and while we managed to salvage quite a few, it wasn’t as many as we’d have liked. So this year we decided to grow them in…

The roof has collapsed more on the barn side of the house. The floor at the front of the barn had already partially collapsed and with the roof now collapsing above it, the situation isn’t going to improve. If we…

We took Dumpling back to the vet as although she’s been in good spirits, we could see she was retaining fluid again – this is where her heart isn’t strong enough to clear fluid from her body. The last time…

Charlie’s anti-seizure medication is a real game-changer. I know the effectiveness will wear off – but for now it’s making a massive difference. The medication doesn’t stop the seizures – well it doesn’t stop the first, but it stops the…

Having discovered that the mystery vine-growing squash type thing that the people at the bottom of the road were growing is called Chayote, and having found a couple in the road after a storm which we cooked and enjoyed, I…

Dumpling hasn’t been quite as well as she had been, but it was difficult to pinpoint exactly what was wrong. So we went back to the vet who quickly saw that dumpling had a lot of fluid in her body…

Well, we had thought we’d been to all the local beaches – then realized that we hadn’t been to any just the other side of Burela. We’d been to the beaches further towards Foz, but there are some beaches that…

There’s a problem with people poaching shellfish. The Spanish (or maybe Galician) word for poacher is furtivo – which I think is a great word! I was reading about the furtivos before Christmas as it’s a big problem around that…

The man who comes to tend the huerta opposite us gave us a big bag of lemons. He has a number of lemon trees and it looks like it’s been a pretty good year. There are lemon trees everywhere –…

We’ve had back to back storms last week with high winds and lots of waves! The beaches and coast paths were closed and even Burela port was closed one day, which questions the expression ‘any port in a storm’. We…