Kate Pullen

Unusually, here’s a photo of Ludvig and me. He actually prefers Ian to me, so given the choice, he will sit on Ian’s shoulder. However, I’ve worked out that if Ludvig is out of his cage and it is just…

We tried to get Ludvig to say ‘Happy New Year’, however his words at the moment all seem to be variations of ‘good boy’. Perhaps next year… If you look closely at Ian’s shirt, you will see where Ludvig has…

The early morning drummers are back! I think they are starting a little later this year – I am sure in previous years they have started around 4am, however this year they seem to be drumming from 5am – 7am.…

Ludvig is definitely starting to talk. He rather started Roland, by saying ‘hello’ to him and confused Rosie by lunging at her through his cage and then saying ‘hello’. He’s got quite an upperclass accent, so he sounds like a…

We think Ludvig is starting to get ready to talk. He seems to be saying ‘hello’. It’s still not that clear, but that’s definitely what it sounds like. We say ‘hello’ to him, so it could be he’s getting ready. However,…

We are going to try to grow our bamboo. We went bamboo scrumping yesterday, and picked some bamboo with shootd which hopefully we can grow . It is our hope that we are as good at growing bamboo as we…

We’ve been watching a Spanish series on the Internet which is in Spanish, but with English subtitles, and it’s quite funny as we understand enough of the Spanish to realize that the English subtitles are an interpretation rather than a…

We had a proper Extremaduran storm during the week and it was one of those where it felt like someone had just poured buckets over us. Luckily there was no hail, as the house would have definitely flooded. As it was,…

The last few years we’ve sort of got into the habit of going fig scrumping for Ian’s birthday treat. Admittedly, probably down to the fact the figs are ripe now, rather than it’s something that’s a treat for Ian. Last…