So now we’re nearly a year into life with the virus and the new normal has started to feel decidedly, er, normal! The situation has been improving – which is good news. Spain has kept schools and businesses open since…
It’s just over 10 months since the pandemic hit Spain with a wallop. I think this time last year we were beginning to hear the first rumblings of a new ‘virus’, but given that we (at the time) didn’t really…
We were at the back end of storm Filomena which resulted in the heaviest snowfalls in Madrid for 150 years with many roads blocked and lots of building damage. We had a bit, but not a huge amount. There was…
Well, what a long time since my last blog post. That one was titled ‘Bobbins gets the all clear-ish’ and it was very much ‘ish’. She came home and we let her loose around the house, and she promptly became…
Bobbins went to the vet this morning and after a few days of steadily moving in the right direction without any regressing, the vet has said she’s ok. So fingers crossed that that will be that now. What a long…
We bought Bobbins home from the vet – she’d been staying in for over a week and we really felt that there wasn’t much that could be done for her in the vet which we couldn’t do at home. The…
Poor Bobbins is still staying at the vet, she’s been there for five days now. We had expected her to come home on Friday as she had shown signs of improvement, but then on Friday she took a step back…
Miss Moppet because suddenly very ill and died earlier this week. It was a surprise as we had not idea that she was ill or that there may have been anything wrong. Here’s a pic of her on the…
We have 6 cases of coronavirus in the village which moves us into a higher band. Given that any more than a quarter of a person with coronavirus moves us into a higher band, it was sort of inevitable. But…
We have put the lovebirds in to the one cage – something that I didn’t think we’d be doing this early on. It can take weeks or months for a lovebird who was bonded to another to accept a new…