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Two of my younger students were telling me that the tooth fairy gives them 5 euros per tooth – which equates to one class. Given that I often think that teaching them is like pulling teeth, this seemed strangely apt.

We had proper Extremaduran rain yesterday. The sort of bucket-being-poured-over-the-head rain that we have a couple of times a year. And yet again, this saw us at the back door gazing out at the torrents descending from the blackening sky.…

apr_25, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. If this was the spider that came up beside Little Miss Muffet, then I don’t blame her for running! We were undertaking our weekly gardening session this morning and having cleared some weeds,…

Well, what a long time since my last blog post. I’d like to say that it was because we were doing lots of exciting things, however we’ve instead been working really hard on our own projects. We also spent some…

Pirata and Roland seem to enjoy each other’s company. They spend half the time snuggled up together and the other half fighting. However Pirata only spends half a day or so with Roland, as he has many other supervisory duties…

Roland purred today when he was sat next to me, which is a good sign that he is feeling at home. He has met Pirata, and while it took them a bit of time to get to know each other…

After months of fine, sunny weather, it finally rained – and at the start of Semana Santa, when villages and towns would be parading their statues of Jesus and Mary, wearing pointy hats and looking sinister (the people, not J&M).…

Roland had given himself a black eye. That was bad enough, but yesterday after lunch we found him with blood running down his face. It came from his missing eye, which is closed. Luckily it looked worse than it was,…

mar_28, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. We popped into Zafra this morning for some shopping in Carrefour and Lidl to get things that we can’t pick up locally and also had our eyes open for outdoor furniture. There are…

We’re paying someone to do some social networking for us over the next three months. This is a big step for us, but given we are much better at being antisocial then social, it made sense to outsource this part…