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We went picking acorn caps last week, however I’m really not sure of acorn etiquette. People eat acorns here – as well as giving them to pigs – so we decided to go further afield to get the caps so…

Ian hidden under a pile of dogs and cat.

Well, although I promised myself that I wouldn’t, I have taken on four new students over the last week. Two are twins in year 4, one other is their younger sibling in year 1 and the other is a young…

We’ve been collecting acorn caps!

I took some samples of my jewelry into the craft shop in Llerena yesterday and was in a slightly odd situation of having to wrestle one of my sample rings away from a lady who was insistent on buying it.…

Poor Dumpling is finding the curtains hanging over the door a tad confusing. Not helped by the fact that Anubis hides behind the curtains tapping her on the nose. Given the almost nonexistent nature of Dumpling’s nose, this is quite…

Alfie actually had the nerve to look quite indignant and stare at me in the hope that I’d stop Dumpling from sitting on him. He doesn’t seem to understand whose chair it is. Poor Sam has had his third fit…

Four days before visitors arrive and the car’s in the garage because the fan is not working and we have shut the windows for the first time since the spring because of rain! Unfortunately, little Dumpling is not used to…

Ian has said for a few weeks now that Anubis’s tail looks like it isn’t growing and I think that this is becoming increasingly apparent. She is now getting quite big, so her little curly tail looks like a little…

Dumpling has been impressing us with her ability to climb onto my chair. Alfie, however, has been decidedly unimpressed. This is his ‘I am not happy, what are you going to do about it?’ face.