The white paint is out again to hide some of the effects of smoke from a winter with fire. I’d hoped I could just paint the spots where necessary, but removing the pictures off the wall showed just how much…

Queenie seems to understand how things work. The weather forecast is looking better so Sam will be the first one to enjoy his spring time haircut.

Instead of round pupils, Queenie has very definite star shaped pupils. Her eyes are quite small, light blue with these little stars inside – it’s very distinctive. This is due to having two M genes and she is what is…

She’s about three months old now and according to a calculation we found online, she will perhaps be about 25kg when full grown, which is what we’d been thinking. She seems quite self-confident and Rosie has been  wanting her to…

We’re going to collect Queeny today. We are meeting her foster family half way between their house and ours, at Salamanca. We’re both looking forward to bringing her home and introducing her to our little gang. We’ve enjoyed introducing all…

We took Henry back to the vet and while there’s no doubt that he’s pretty poorly, he seems a very more spritely dog than he was this time last week. He is much more like his old self, and while…

Henry is pretty poorly. I had thought that he had got old over the last few weeks and Ian said that Henry had stopped eating his tea last week. As Henry has never been a big eater we weren’t unduly…

I popped into the workshop to get something for Kate and was greeted by this sight. Mushrooms for tea then!

For the first time in a while we’re looking out at nice bright sun. Although we haven’t had the storms that they’ve had in the north of Spain or the UK, but we caught the tail end of them and…

I was a little bemused that one of my very young students wasn’t allowed to attend class this week as a punishment for bad behaviour. I am sure that if you asked most of my students they would say that…