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The Hidden Challenge of Living with a Talking Parrot
We’ve just spent the last goodness knows how long trying to decide how to teach Ludvig to ask for something. He’s still quite young, but we ought to be able to teach him how to ask for things – but…
why we don’t need to worry about flour!
Lockdown Life – Light at the End of the Tunnel
The government has laid out the plans for de-escalation which will start next week sometime, assuming there’s no increase in cases requiring ICU beds. The government is very concerned about a second outbreak and their focus is equally about ensuring…
Lockdown Life – Day 40
As we near the end of the 6th week of lockdown, we’re beginning to notice some changes. We can still no longer get flour (but the good news is we are buying some direct from a mill, which will actually…
Training With Daisy
Our Couch to 5k running program is part walking and part running, so during the walking bits, we have used the time to do some Daisy training – specifically fetching a ball. We don’t do this during the running sections…
Lockdown Life – Day er….
Bobbins gave us a worry yesterday when she had a lump appear on her leg. It was the other side to the ones she had removed, and it was soft, not hard. I got in touch with the vet and…
Lockdown Life Day +/- 28
The restrictions have been lifted slightly, insomuch as manufacturing and construction workers can start work again. I think agricultural workers have been able to continue working since this all began, so I don’t suppose there’ll be that much difference in…
Lockdown Life Day 22
We noticed for the first time flour is being rationed. We were limited to three bags of white ‘baking’ flour. We actually buy relatively a lot of flour as we make our own bread, but even with the rationing, we’re…
Lockdown Life – Day 18 – We enter a new phase…
Earlier this week stricter measures were introduced in Spain which don’t really affect us too much, but are tightening things even more. Fines have been increased for people breaking the measures and now basically everything other than a few key…