Kate Pullen

After months of waiting one of my cotton buds finally opened. It was one of the green cotton plants and I was amazed to see how green the cotton really was. I was expecting it to be a light murky…

We’ve been promising ourselves that we’d do some more serious exploring on the tracks on the other side of the road towards Llerena. We thought that the cycle ride we did a couple of weeks ago ought to join up…

…and Tinkerbelle pinches Rosie’s chew

Our harvest this year has been decidedly disappointing. Our chillies resulted in the princely total of two, my cotton buds have failed to open and our tomatoes were rubbery. Lots of things failed to grow at all, and I can…

The first picture is Annie – Rosie’s sister. The second pic is Rosie. Seems like the sofa flopping gene runs strong through the family…

It was the 558th annual feria in Zafra and we went along after we had been to the scrapyard. We needed a new mirror for the wing mirror on the car. As many cars that we in the scrap yard…

As the weather is cooler we decided to go for a midday cycle ride – and of course this was a great opportunity to dig deep in the freezer and find a couple of last year’s pasties. These were of…

This weekend is the village fiesta, so far we’ve avoided the festivities, however Ian did stand on the sun terrace last night and took some firework pictures. I hid with the nervous dogs – which surprisingly included Rosie who stuck…

We took Bentley for his first walk outside the house yesterday. Poor chap was very unhappy to start. It is difficult to know when a good time is to take him out, it was the same with Wilbs too and…