Poor Petal is very poorly. Last week when I picked her up I could feel a lump under her front leg, and on closer investigation I found some more on her neck and on a similar spot on her other…

It is noticeably darker in the mornings now. The solar fairy lights don’t go off until well past 7 now. The other morning it was so dark first thing I had to check the clock to make sure I hadn’t…

We’re both moaning about the heat at the moment, and judging by the amount of fluffy little bodies hugging the cool floor, so are the animals.  It’s actually not really hot, it hasn’t been a hot year (low to mid…

One of my young students has just come back from a couple of days at the beach and he wanted to know why all English people were red. He had noticed that there were a lot of red people in…

For a village where vacuuming the pavement is regarded as a natural development from brushing the pavement and where mornings are a scurry of people cleaning their bits of street, it was only a matter of time before the latest…

After months of being seizure free, Sam had a fit last night. If his old pattern comes back, he is likely to have another one soon and then hopefully no more for a while. We’re not too worried about him…

Bobbins has been pretty much a model little puppy. I think she’d dearly love to be a naughty little tyke, however her blindness hinders her somewhat so she spend the majority of the time being unwittingly good. She spends a…

Ian took Bobbins to see the vet about her eyes and he isn’t going to remove them. He is of the opinion that there’s no point in putting here through more than she needs. He will trim away some of…

Queenie is feeling much brighter now. The biggest problem is that she can’t navigate the house well with the lampshade on her head. The lampshade also holds down her big ears. We went to the vet in Zafra as he…

Queenie spent the day at the vet being neutered. We had a feeling she wouldn’t make a great patient and she did a fine job of feeling sorry for herself last night. She’s a lot brighter today thankfully.