Having said that everyone was ok after the crash of the kitchen cupboard, we noticed that Davy was limping and unable to jump very high. Davy is normally able to jump onto the fridge where their food is with no…

Our kitchen cabinet fell off the wall on Friday. It is a very large cabinet and was quite full. Amazingly all that broke was one egg, and even more amazingly, Ian happened to be stood right by it and managed…

Yesterday we went for another lunch bike ride and picnic. This time we went to what we think is an old quarry. It’s actually less that two kilometers away, so we were easily able to be there, back and picnic…

Ian and I have been busy making pumpkin soup and quince cheese. Ian has been making the soup from a huge pumpkin that one of my class give us and I have been making quince cheese from some quinces we…

Pirata is settling in well. He is very confident and doesn’t get fazed by much. Ian wonders if Pirata can determine light and shade. Certainly he does sometimes seem to ‘look’ at things. I’m not really sure of how things…

We went ahead and bought a couple of cat trees. A small one for Pirata and a big one for the rest. Needless to say – the box was much more interesting – you can see Tib’s tail as she…

…to look at this chair (click here for more info) – and the $85,000 price tag – and not start mentally planning a soft toy round-up. I did check to make sure that the price wasn’t in Zimbabwean dollars or…

The sun terrace looking over to the yard next door (and our new chest) Ian and the sun terrace looking towards the castle The sun terrace looking towards the police house. We’ll be able to wave to them. Nicely painted…