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Queenie poking her nose at something that’s infinitely more smart than her!

After the combined canine/feline team scored a comprehensive victory in the first leg of the jasmine cup, I like to think that we’ve come back strongly in the second leg. Only time will tell just how deluded that I am!

If Queenie were an elephant, Disney would make a film about her.

This year, the annual tomato growing duties have fallen to me and so far just over half of the seeds planted have germinated. The seeds were a Christmas present from Ed and Emma and the Ukrainian Purple variety are my…

This is is Millie, a two year old blind Yorkshire Terrier from a town a little north of Seville. She apparently lost her sight in an accident and Millie is short for Milagro, the Spanish word for miracle as she…

After eight years, we’ve finally made it to the Jerte Valley to see the spring cherry blossom. It’s one of the first traffic jams we’ve experienced in our time here and the photo does not do it justice. The terraced…

Sunday marked four weeks with us for Queenie and she must be getting bigger, though for some reason her body seems to concentrating mainly on her ears – the sudden strong gusts of wind in the summer could be problematic.…

Rosie and Queenie have been playing more and more. It obviously requires Rosie to rein herself in a little, but we rarely hear Queenie squealing. As it’s raining this morning, despite my protestations, the dog sofa is the playground. Sam’s…

This is what all the best dressed dogs in Villagrcia are wearing this season. The lenses are interchangeable so we may see if they have darker lenses for bright sunshine if necessary for Queenie.

We’d been anticipating the worst for a little while and sadly this morning it seemed that it was probably the right time for Henry to be put to sleep. With the bulky bandage removed from his leg on Saturday, Heny…