Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

Doctor

I went to the Doctor yesterday with a bad shoulder. I’ve had it for about a year – in fact, since I fell off my bike last year – but it has got progressively worse and is affecting my movement.…

Resevoir

A couple of weeks ago, we had a picnic at the resevoir outside Llerena. In the past, we have sat on the edge, by the fence, with our feet in the water. We’d have needed pretty long legs to dangle…

Google Dump / Panda Slap

We’ve been, in Internet terms, Google Dumped and Panda Slapped. This is where Google change their search algorithms and sites that were performing well in search results, are downgraded so that other sites appear above them. This has a significant…

Pasties and Flying Ants

We went for our first pasty ride of the season yesterday. Popped a couple of pasties in a backpack and did a round trip towards Usagre and back. The recent rain made the tracks dust-free which was nice for a…

Jokes

I’ve started a ‘joke of the week’ page at Marchena35. This was the first week, it made me smile and Ian groan…

Rain!

We had rain today – must be the first rain for 6 months. We knew it was coming as we went to Pepes at lunch time and he had the news on, and the top story was rain! The news…

Cheese Feast

We’re just coming to the end of a mammoth cheese feast which we started for Ian’s birthday. In fact, we started the weekend before his birthday, having bought a number of different cheeses, including our favourite torta cheese. We bought…

Once a Year

Once a year we confuse the animals by dragging them away from the comfy spots they have commandeered around the house, and frog marching them into Ian’s office where we subject them to very loud music – for their own…

More Treasure Hunt

They had to take a photo of themselves in front of 356,000 euros. This was the number on this sign behind them. I did a surprisingly long bike ride yesterday. I spontaneous turn meant that I ended up taking a…