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The naming decision has now been made and Rubén has become Alfie. Funnily enough, it’s only as I wrote the title of this post that it became apparent how appropriate a name it is. Pixie has come into season for…

Sadly, we took Herbie to be put to sleep this morning. He had started wheezing a bit last week and when we took him to be checked, the tumour had almost completely overrun his lung. His drug regime was changed…

feb_28, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. Yesterday was sun and bright blue skies, but today the weather has taken a rather different course. Don’t think we’ve had any snow for at least the last two winters, though it’s worth…

Every year, on the third Sunday of September, we find ourselves asking the same question. “What time does the procession carrying the virgin pass through the square?” Every year we struggle trying to remember what time it happened last year.…

Herbie doesn’t allow blindness to stop him finding and testing out new places to lie, such as this bean bag that we thought we’d arranged to prevent the dogs using.

I know it looks like we’re parked, but we were actually heading along the Monesterio to Llerena road at a bit of a lick. It turns out that the nice German engineers have placed the Merc’s throttle pedal at much…

jul_10, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. Herbie was insistent that I shot his good side. I wasn’t sure which one that was, so plumped for this side. Hopefully I got it right.

We had to return a little pool to Carrefour in Zafra yesterday because of a leak in it and so took advantage to do a shop and stop for a picnic lunch on the way back. The photo was taken…

jun_28, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. El Guapo, or Herbie as he is now known, is a pretty lucky dog. I am thinking that there are not many blind and deaf dogs, with wobbly legs that were one week…