We lit the fire early today, much to the delight of the animals. Pirata has a habit of attacking Rosie when she’s lying near the fire, but today, perhaps in an early show of festive spirit, he snuggled up to…

They’re actually starting to look as if they might turn into mushrooms!

There is a surprising similarity between cats and parrots. Cats are known for their fickleness. One day they will decide that this is their most favorite food ever, only the next day to freeze with horror that anyone could dare…

Or we are growing a new species…

Something appears to be growing

Over the last couple of months Ian and I have been working on a new project. I have written a book and Ian has laid it out, done the editing and formatted it into ebook formats. It’s been an interesting…

Montse s dad gave us big jar of olives. So we now have pickled onions, cabbage, olives and chutney. Yum! Went to see an accountant today and her name was Maria of the angels. I told IanI wanted to be…

Because we are having another go at growing mushrooms! Given we can grow mould on most things with surprising ease, e have high hopes for a bumper mushroom harvest.

As Kate said, Dumpling looks like a mini version of Basil with other pets lying on top of her. Can’t imagine Schnookums feels very light.

The pile of dogs and cats gets bigger s the weather gets colder!