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There was a knock at the door shortly after one o´clock and several teenagers (at least one a student of Kate) were there with a kitten. They’d found it down by the health centre and hadn’t been able to find…

It’s that time of year again when the car gets washed so that it looks as well cared for as possible for the ITV centre staff. It’s the equivalent of the MOT and was due this morning. Fortunately we checked…

Woke up to a strange noise yesterday. It took a while to work out what it was – it was rain! The first rain we’ve had for ages – but probably not as long as in previous years. It was…

We’ve been making toys for larry! We used bits of card tube and a card cone filled with dry banana. We’ve also attached his sticks back in his cage – which is giving him plenty to play with. He seems…

Kate was greeted with a surprise yesterday when two of her students, Carlos and Maria, arrived with a poster, cakes and chocolates to mark the fact that they’d been receiving classes from her for five years. Looking at the photo,…

Alfie came out for another walk this morning – only his second since joining us. We tried him on our usual morning walk which is a bit longer than the first walk we took him on. When we thought he…

Being nothing, if not consistently inconsistent, having said we’d stay here for at least 10 years, and then deciding that we loved it so much we’d stay here for ever, we’ve now introduced a new plan which is to put…

This is the house that Rosie previously spent many hours pointing at.

Having no prior experience of parrots, we don’t know whether Larry is any odder than other parrots. However he really does seem an odd little thing. Now he is at eye level with us we are seeing a lot more…

For this morning’s pre breakfast walk, we took Alfie with us. It’s the first time that we’ve taken him out since he arrived and we didn’t know how he’d get on. To play safe we did a different route that…