Noone is going to pick a fight with Ian at the moment, as he appears to have his neck stitched together with buttons. They are either going to think he is so hard-man that he has taken body piercing to…

Ian has been dragged into the 21st century, having gone from a prehistoric mobile phone that children stare at with awe, fascinated to see what people used in the olden days, to a super-duper Apply iPhone. Needless to say, this…

This is a big hit at the moment. It is Italian, however it is close enough to Spanish that the words are near enough the same. However, watch out for the sad end!

We’ve been enjoying some mini-feasts from the countryside. We scrumped some vineleaves yesterday and had stuffed vineleaves for tea and this morning we picked what must be the very last of the wild asparagus this year and had wild asparagus…

… is what Limpy, our cockerel is (probably) saying to himself at the moment. Both the ladies have gone broody – in separate barns, leaving him on his own with no one to hang out with. Silkies are mega-brooders, so…

I’ve spent the last day or so staring at the inside of a human body – although happily not a real one, a 3d model of a skeleton. Yuck. Over the last two and a bit years I’ve been learning…

may_21, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr.

We have to watch out at the moment for low-flying Alfie. He has broadened his spring boarding onto Ian’s lap to now include me. And all of a sudden a little three and a half legged, one eyed, Yorkshire Terrier…

It rained yesterday – proper RAIN. There had been a weather warning for storms, and when we went for a cycle ride in the morning (which we have just started to do again) we saw lightening bouncing around, so thought…

may_09, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. Obviously because of the great speed, you probably won’t notice anything but a slight blur in the middle of the shot. However, look a little more closely and you may just make out…