We’ve had about 4 heat waves over the last couple of weeks. And it is HOT. The weather report has been showing temperatures of 39, however this is ambient temperature, not in the sun, so the heat on our patio…

Anubis, our little siamese-type cat was poorly this week and had to go to the vet. She’d lost a lot of weight and when the weather was very hot on Monday she dehydrated. The vet put her on a drip…

I made a short video of some of the photos of our house which we have on the website.

I feel i should be singing Disney songs! (Click on the image so see the full size pic)

parrot cake. Yesterday morning saw me in the unusual task of baking cake at breakfast. Well, a sort of nutty scone. However it wasn’t a special treat for Ian, it was part of our quest to get Larry to eat…

After Dumpling had her summer haircut yesterday, I was a little alarmed to see that her head had shrunk. However, on closer inspection it transpired that rather than her head shrinking, the rest of her body has grown somewhat. Not…

Inaugural soup maker soup…

My first attempts with oil pastels. One on the left is on the proper oil pastel board. The one on the right was a practice as I didn’t want to waste the proper board until I had at least had…

Having made our lovebirds a lovely crochet nest, they slept in it once, and have subsequently shunned it for a cardboard tube. They are getting quite big now, and their tales poke out at the end, so I only hope…

Here are the lovebirds falling asleep on top of the nest that I crocheted them this weekend!