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Asparagus season! Or, as Daisy would put it, the time of year when a perfectly good walk full of ball throwing opportunities is ruined by us looking for little green twiggy things. It hasn’t been a great start, but the…

We were commenting yesterday on the strange color of the sky. It was a yellowy orange color and it is the same today. The orange color was dust from the sahara. It rained a bit, but not enough to…

We saw a lonesome asparagus stalk at the weekend and the hint of green under the olive tree is asparagus plants, so it won’t belong now before we’re asparagus hunting again! Yesterday, I went to the doctor for the first…

We really do! This is a reservoir which was flooded, I guess about 7 or 8 years ago. It’s out towards Feria, and we would definitely have seen it as fields before it was flooded. It’s now a substantially sized…

Apparently olive trees only give a proper harvest every two years and the year in between, while they do produce olives, it’s very much less and the olives are just left to fall. This is an in between year but…

Having just heard Ludvig go through his morning repertoire, I wondered yet again what the first person to hear a parrot talk must have thought – or perhaps, what havoc a parrot may have caused on a ship the first…

Here’s Ian showing Percy our fancy new identity cards! Yesterday we went to Merida to collect our new identity cards. These are so much better than the little pieces of paper we had before. I’m not sure how many years…

Dimrose is a very odd cat. And one of her main oddities is she goes to sleep nose down, so it looks like she’s been sat up and then just fallen asleep and just collapsed forward! However, I saw her…

Percy seems to have very much taken to Daisy and has nominated her as his favourite playmate. It reminds us of Basil and Henry and how they used to play together. We’d see Basil chasing Henry as they would run…