Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

Roland Purrs

Roland purred today when he was sat next to me, which is a good sign that he is feeling at home. He has met Pirata, and while it took them a bit of time to get to know each other…

Rain!

After months of fine, sunny weather, it finally rained – and at the start of Semana Santa, when villages and towns would be parading their statues of Jesus and Mary, wearing pointy hats and looking sinister (the people, not J&M).…

Roland Has a Black Eye

Roland had given himself a black eye. That was bad enough, but yesterday after lunch we found him with blood running down his face. It came from his missing eye, which is closed. Luckily it looked worse than it was,…

Anti Social Networking

We’re paying someone to do some social networking for us over the next three months. This is a big step for us, but given we are much better at being antisocial then social, it made sense to outsource this part…

Family Game

My family game is finished and online. It isn’t perfect, and I plan to redo the animations, however I wanted to get some feedback from my class before Easter as I plan to make some more games during the Easter…

800!

This is the 800th post! Phewey – wonder when we’ll get to the 1000th. Roland continues to settle in well. He no longer skuttles under a unit when I come into my workshop. In fact, he is sat on the…

Connected

We’ve connected the sun terrace to our network so we can get a wifi signal up there now – here’s proof. This is a screenshot of Ian talking to me as he tested the connection. Roland is settling in, however…

Chico

This is Chico, and he will be coming to live with us soon. He has a sad story. He is about six months old, and was found in a bin, paralyzed from the neck down. He was obviously terrified.  He…

Raining Oranges

There is a large divide when it comes to intelligence in our household. At one end of the scale we have Pirata, who is highly intelligent and has us well trained to bid to his every whim. At the other…