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Semana Santa = Rain

Oh dear, another Semana Santa and another rainy week. The ancient statues of Mary and Jesus will be taken out, but most under cover. It was the same last year too, so someone has been very naughty. Talking of which,…

Ghosts in the Bathroom

Classes finished on a new low last week. One little girl wet herself. The word for wetting oneself appears to be the same as ‘oak tree’, which confused me as I couldn’t work out why they were telling me about…

Truly Terrifying

A couple of weeks ago, one of my teeth broke. I guess about half of it broke a way and while it doesn’t hurt, the tooth looks quite unsightly as it now appears black. I thought I’d ask around my…

Larry’s Gymnastical Adventure

Larry was entertaining us yesterday by wandering round the outside of his cage and dangling off it at improbable angles. It was very entertaining and he seemed to be enjoying himself as he dangled upside down attacking the bottom of…

More Snow

While not much settled in the ground – as you can see from the snow on the table, a lot fell yesterday. Most has gone today though. Here are some photos that were sent to the newspaper. Judging by the…

A Turn in the Weather

feb_28, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. Yesterday was sun and bright blue skies, but today the weather has taken a rather different course. Don’t think we’ve had any snow for at least the last two winters, though it’s worth…

Locked!

Sigh. In typical Pullen style, we spent part of yesterday trying to work out if we were lucky or unlucky. Our car needs the work done on it that Ian feared before Christmas so we can’t drive it. Not only…

Life with a parrot

…. continues to be interesting – and very noisy. Larry is currently taking exception to a new feeder. We bought him a new feeder as he seemed also to take exception to his last one, liking nothing more then throwing…