Kate Pullen

Poor Petal has been dealt a cruel blow. Having improved so much that she was pretty much her normal self, as Ian wrote in his blog post, she is now paralyzed at the back legs, because she had a swelling…

Well, there isn’t anything to update really, which in itself must be good news. We think she is much more lively and perkier. She seemed to go downhill quickly after we went to the vet the first time, but perhaps…

Here’s our latest project. It’s quite exciting as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for ages and it looks like we’re really in a position to make it happen. It’s a range of ‘things’ that can be modified with knitting,…

is ensuring they eat enough. Because Petal’s kidney’s aren’t working properly, the vet wants to avoid giving her any unnecessary pills to help her anemia, relying instead on food. However, because Petal isn’t a greedy dog it’s quite difficult to…

We’ve just come back from the vet. The swelling around Petals eye had got noticeably worse over the last 24 hours, so I assumed it was a tumor and that it was an indication that she was deteriorating rapidly. We…

…means that life is seldom boring – or relaxing. Queenie is probably at the top of the odd league. She could well be slightly odd anyway, however her deafness and partial site means that she is often a tad strange.…

Poor Petal is very poorly. Last week when I picked her up I could feel a lump under her front leg, and on closer investigation I found some more on her neck and on a similar spot on her other…

It is noticeably darker in the mornings now. The solar fairy lights don’t go off until well past 7 now. The other morning it was so dark first thing I had to check the clock to make sure I hadn’t…

We’re both moaning about the heat at the moment, and judging by the amount of fluffy little bodies hugging the cool floor, so are the animals.  It’s actually not really hot, it hasn’t been a hot year (low to mid…

One of my young students has just come back from a couple of days at the beach and he wanted to know why all English people were red. He had noticed that there were a lot of red people in…