Kate was greeted with a surprise yesterday when two of her students, Carlos and Maria, arrived with a poster, cakes and chocolates to mark the fact that they’d been receiving classes from her for five years. Looking at the photo,…

Alfie came out for another walk this morning – only his second since joining us. We tried him on our usual morning walk which is a bit longer than the first walk we took him on. When we thought he…

Being nothing, if not consistently inconsistent, having said we’d stay here for at least 10 years, and then deciding that we loved it so much we’d stay here for ever, we’ve now introduced a new plan which is to put…

This is the house that Rosie previously spent many hours pointing at.

Having no prior experience of parrots, we don’t know whether Larry is any odder than other parrots. However he really does seem an odd little thing. Now he is at eye level with us we are seeing a lot more…

For this morning’s pre breakfast walk, we took Alfie with us. It’s the first time that we’ve taken him out since he arrived and we didn’t know how he’d get on. To play safe we did a different route that…

Henry has taken over from Bob cat tree duties. However he’s not the only one. Look at Alfie in the box undermeath.

In the cat box

This year I’m taking a hard line with students who misbehave or don’t come to classes without telling me first. I’ve so far sent texts to two parents about bad behaviour of students (super-bad behaviour, the students were fighting each…

Here’s what a kilo of cashmere and silk looks like! We got it from Germany from a wholesale place and I was able to buy a lot more with my money. This was with my birthday money and i think…