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Survivors!

We had a end of summer classes treasure hunt today. And lived to tell the tale. We had three teams who had to go round the village answering questions. To stop them getting completely lost we had some photo clues,…

A trip to the fitness park…

Ed demonstrating a ‘slack line’ (a sort of tightrope that is tied between trees).  They had bought it with them and we went to the fitness park and tied it between a couple of trees there. It was about a…

Home Brew

I was a little surprised to find the chickens brewing their own beer. However, they definitely appear dedicated to the task. They keep kicking their grain into their water container, which then starts fermenting. I thought our two ladies were…

Expensive Spider

Our kitchen heater stopped working – not a problem at the moment, when water comes out almost too hot – but will be later in the year. The plumber came and found that a spider had got inside one of…

And relax…

Herbie doesn’t allow blindness to stop him finding and testing out new places to lie, such as this bean bag that we thought we’d arranged to prevent the dogs using.

Super Herbie

Whereas a few weeks ago, little Herbie was very wobbly and unsteady on his feet, today he is so very much improved. He can not only climb out of the kitchen door, which although we have a breeze-block in front,…

Odd

We went to the birthday party of one of my 7 year old students on Tuesday. After being subjected to lots of excited little girls, Ian was obviously in need of a strong drink so we nipped into Pepes on…

Yikes

I can’t remember having a red temperature warning before. The temperature tomorrow is forecast at 40 degrees in the shade – blimey!

Raining Dust!

Apparently we had the first rain last night for ages, it has been so long since it last rained that it has given us another date to argue over. However, it was very little rain. So little, in fact, that…