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I use the British Council website sometimes in my English classes. There is a wide range of games that are educational. However, today I came across this – Try it and then think how to explain to an amazed…

Thought perhaps I should confirm my existence by posting on the blog once again. Fortunately, following my birthday I’ve not been spending time with sheep or a knitting machine, but have been learning more about the camera that Kate bought…

The van was taken for scrap. The scrap man kept saying he would ‘make it disappear’. We kept assuring him that it was legal (we scrapped it in the UK a couple of years ago), but he seemed to prefer…

We know it is getting cooler as Tinks starts to search out Basil to lie on!

Last Sunday we got up early to watch the sun rise and take pictures. Here’s mine.

Noticed that the local paper can be purchased online, sheet by sheet. 10centimos per page. Not that cheap, really.

We’ve been without water this afternoon because a main is broken. If it was this time last week, with a house of nine pending, we might have been a tad concerned – however they have till Monday to get it…

The builder is here looking at my workshop roof (it has rained – hence the added urgency to get the repairs done). He found a wasp nest and a snake skin. Wonder if our snake had been living on the…

Ian’s birthday is on Thursday. I was torn between buying him sheep, a knitting machine or a camera. I had also considered a metal detector, however that got relegated when the ancient Roman gold bangle that I found, that was…

Well isn’t that just typical! Having raved about the weather forecasts we find that today was another hot sunny day and no sign of rain. It was this weekend just passed two years ago when we flooded. Ah, happy memories.…