‘Small Dog’ has been to the vet’s, had a check-up and had her first puppy medication which was wormers. She goes back next week for her shots. We’re still debating names. She was Maisy for a while, but that was…

Yesterday we were joined this little Spanish Water Dog (perro de agua). Name to be decided but not-so-short-list includes Maisy, Meg, Pili (short for Pilar – source of water), Bubbles, Osito (little bear), Poppy….Unusually, she has both eyes, can see…

Here’s a happy stork story about a stork who leaves his partner who can’t fly every year to emigrate and return in the spring – https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatian-love-story-continues-klepetan-returns-home-early/ and he’s come back for another year. Their storks are obviously on a different pattern to…

Sadly, we had our little cat, Missie, put to sleep yesterday. We’ve been back to the vet with her about the lump on her nose, and it transpires she has feline leucemia, and it was going to be too much…

When we were asparagus picking yesterday, I noticed that the almond trees are now full of almost fully grown almond fruit, which now just hang there and ripen for a few months. We’ve been almond scrumping as a birthday treat…

Horace went to the hairdressers on Monday and is now neatly sheared. It was the same groomer this time, which I think is a first. While she blanched a bit when she saw him, she knew what to expect and…