Well, the bit arrived for the car, the nice people at the garage fixed it and we went to the MOT centre yesterday to be retested – and the car passed for another year. Hooray! The process was quite painless.…
So we still have no car! It’s been four weeks. Ian could have bought the bits from the UK, but it would have been more expensive – and we still wouldn’t have had the right tool to fit it. So…
We’re still waiting for a thing for the car. It’s August and things are slow during this month – but it’s a good job we’ve got two months to get it fixed! It doesn’t really effect us too badly as…
It was our 15 year wedding anniversary on Thursday. It took us a bit of time to work it out, but we both agreed on 15 years. Despite having to work out how many years it is, it still feels…
Last week we had our annual outing to the MOT centre. Unfortunately, Ian’s attempts at gluing the car together didn’t work and the car failed it’s MOT 🙁 Probably because it was dripping fuel on the head of the man…
Horace went to the vet last week for a check up. He’s stopping taking the medication, just taking a tiny dose now and he’ll stop completely next week. While we were there I asked about getting his hair cut as…
We’ve got another heatwave. A lot of Spain has a red warning. We have an orange warning. Goodness knows what it would be like in Seville where the big tall buildings trap the heat. Unbearable I guess. We always take…
We went back to the vet yesterday for another review meeting with Horace. Poor little chap, they were picking up his legs to see if he fell over. They did say they had seen a tiny improvement in him, but…
I trod on a snake in the bedroom last week. Which was a bit of a surprise. It was quite big and slithered off under the bed. Ian found it eventually and said it was ‘quite lively’ and difficult to…
Having speculated whether vets are taught to express certain conditions in kinder ways, the answer is apparently not. The vet yesterday referred to Horace as being an ‘idiot’, and she said the other dogs won’t play with him because he…