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Here is a photo of our back yard. Surprisingly, the photo doesn’t do it justice as it is looking quite good at the moment. Admittedly, our lime tree now just has two leaves on it and perhaps the tomatoes we…

We decided that it was time for Roland to be introduced to the house. He has been introduced slowly to all of the other animals – without any problems – so we felt that he was confident enough to come…

Somebody switched summer on last week. I think about 12 o’clock Tuesday morning, when all of a sudden the temperature ramped up and we started moaning about the heat. We’ve commented on this before, however there is no gentle easing…

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).…