Kate Pullen

Ian hidden under a pile of dogs and cat.

Well, although I promised myself that I wouldn’t, I have taken on four new students over the last week. Two are twins in year 4, one other is their younger sibling in year 1 and the other is a young…

We’ve been collecting acorn caps!

I took some samples of my jewelry into the craft shop in Llerena yesterday and was in a slightly odd situation of having to wrestle one of my sample rings away from a lady who was insistent on buying it.…

Poor Dumpling is finding the curtains hanging over the door a tad confusing. Not helped by the fact that Anubis hides behind the curtains tapping her on the nose. Given the almost nonexistent nature of Dumpling’s nose, this is quite…

Four days before visitors arrive and the car’s in the garage because the fan is not working and we have shut the windows for the first time since the spring because of rain! Unfortunately, little Dumpling is not used to…

Ian has said for a few weeks now that Anubis’s tail looks like it isn’t growing and I think that this is becoming increasingly apparent. She is now getting quite big, so her little curly tail looks like a little…

Ian had a review at the hospital to receive the analysis of his lump. It was a ganglion, which was rather annoying as we could have avoided all this fuss by me just hitting him on the chin with a…

Yesterday heralded the start of my new year of classes. I leave it for a couple of weeks after school starts before I start classes after the summer to give them a chance to settle in. This year I’ve cut…

Wilbur and Dumpling are very pleased to see us when we arrive home, even if we’ve just been out for a new minutes. Henry, Tinkerbelle and Petal are slightly less excited (Petal got off the bean bag just as I…