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Montse s dad gave us big jar of olives. So we now have pickled onions, cabbage, olives and chutney. Yum! Went to see an accountant today and her name was Maria of the angels. I told IanI wanted to be…

Because we are having another go at growing mushrooms! Given we can grow mould on most things with surprising ease, e have high hopes for a bumper mushroom harvest.

As Kate said, Dumpling looks like a mini version of Basil with other pets lying on top of her. Can’t imagine Schnookums feels very light.

The pile of dogs and cats gets bigger s the weather gets colder!

Another indication of the time of year as the chimney brushes and the old Dyson are dusted off. I tried lighting the fire last night, but had to put it out after a minute as it started belching smoke into…

It’s that time of year again when we take a break from the little silver skin pickled onions that are the only ones we can buy and prepare our own. I only took care of peeling and jarring. The creative…

We popped to Pepe’s this lunchtime to discover the tables have their winter blankets over them and the charcoal brasseros have been lit. This is Kate’s foot under our table. I think we were the only ones taking photos.

With great sorrow we had Bentley put to sleep. He was a lovely great friendly giant, 99.999% of the time. However very occasionally he would be aggressive to the others, and because of his size, he had the power to…

Pixie trying to join in the kitty bed time scrum!!

I looked up from my laptop to discover that it was Teatime. They didn’t look like they were interested in discussing the matter.