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Last Saturday I was sat wearing a fleece and moaning about the cold, and yesterday I was sat wearing a t-shirt and moaning about the heat, what a difference a week makes! We went asparagus picking on Friday and had…

After what must be over a year of relatively dry weather, this past week has been full of rain clouds. So much so, I assumed that we had someone coming to visit which had triggered the bad weather, as this…

It seems like such a long time since we’ve lost one of the household, but sadly Anubis’ illness became too much today and she was put to sleep. She’d been through a cycle of deteriorating and then recovering with intensive…

What a longtime since I wrote a blog post. I’d like to say it is because we’ve been busy doing exciting things. But instead we’ve been busy doing relatively boring things – including taking some online courses to learn about…

His new food finally arrived. You will see there is much more in this than just the sunflower seeds that he used to eat before he came to us. He is getting much better now, but he still looks at…

But he wouldn’t stay still when he sees I have the camera near his cage.

I think that all of Spain must have been pretty naughty over the last few years as there’s been a definite pattern of lovely warm spring days on the lead up to Semana Santa and then rain throughout the week.…

I have an adult student called Angel, and he didn’t come to class last week , therefore I think of him now as being bad angel. I wonder when I’ll get used to these funny Spanish names.

I am very frustrated. This time last year toddler-alike Larry, our parrot, was ill because he wouldn’t eat anything other than sunflower seeds. We tried so hard over the last year to find food that he would eat, but I guess…

Our first passion flower of the year. And I remember the passion flower at Nanny’s house too!