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We’re not doing a Pullen Plan this year. This is because this is the year for consolidation.  Our plan for 2011 was to work on a wide number of projects and then this year to review everything and weed out…

Well, Ian has just spent the best part of a week removing a virus from my laptop. It was hidden right in the inner workings of the computer and was difficult to remove. It affected the firewall, but I’m not…

We had the first frost on the roof this morning. The weather is very clear during the day, but this has meant the temperature has dropped a lot at night. It has been very mild. The weather is perfect for…

Here’s Rosie now, doing one of her favorite things, which is making herself wet and muddy, compared to exactly a year ago when she first arrived.

Here is Anne, Rosie’s sister winning a prize at a dog show in Galicia. It was for a category called ‘gorilones’ which isn’t a word I know, however Galician is spoken in Galicia, so it could be a Galician word.…

Our chickens are very weird. They steadfastly choose to ignore the lovely snuggly bed they have, opting to huddle under it, rather than go up into it. I even tried putting the food up their. We then had to resort…

There is a bee farm not far from us – we were interested to see that the hives are made from metal. I would have thought this made a rather nice little oven in the summer – but apparently the…

The holiday season has begun. There are two holidays this week, tomorrow which is Constitution Day and Thursday which is Day of the Immaculate conception. There’s then Christmas Day, which is a Sunday this year so Saturday and Monday will…