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Our summer routine has started now. I have classes this year every morning except Sunday although I only have two hours each on Friday and Saturday. I can’t combine them as I have more younger students and they don’t like…

There are apparently many joys to being vegetarian and tempeh is the latest one to reach this household. It’s basically soy beans fermented in mould. Late tried making it once before but it didn’t work, possibly because the tempeh culture…

My beanbag is the bed of choice at the moment, and they all sit on it regardless of who was there first – as poor little Millie found after Queenie sat on her. Millie never makes a sound, so it…

As I stood in the kitchen testing different techniques for skinning soy beans, I looked out to see that Bobbins must have climbed her first step. It may not sound like much of an achievement, but with those short legs…

Bobbins has decided that Wilbur would make a fine mother.

Wilbs may not be able to see, however he can hear the crack of a yogurt pot at 100 meters and his eyes light up and he finds himself at the table waiting to lick out the yogurt pots. Wilbs’s…

Puppies can over heat in the hot weather, particularly ones with short noses so I make a top for Bobbins out of a sleeve of a t-shirt. The design needs finessing, a small children’s t-shirt sleeve would have been a…

Milly has added the outdoor tables to her race track and here she is demonstrating that she has got her skip back. She was a little unsettled by Bobbins, however she is back to her normal skippy self now. Here’s…

Schnukem died in her sleep last night. We suspect she had a tumor inside, however because of her shape we couldn’t see it. Certainly there was no clue that anything was wrong until we noticed her walking stiffly yesterday. She…

Bobbins is settling in with ease. There was a flurry of interest in her from the others, but that soon dispelled. It was only Milly who seemed affected by Bobbins. Ideally we wouldn’t have bought another animal in so soon,…