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…

Our (very small) harvest. The fruit volume is actually inflated, looking at it, as Daisy’s luminous ball is in the pic! The success this year (besides apples that were actually bigger than cherries – and the two pomegranates that exploded)…

We had proper rain yesterday. The sort of rain where six months of rain falls in about three seconds! I think the village drains got blocked somewhere along the line as the water wasn’t draining from our drain, which was…