We hopefully have a new little cat coming to live with us next weekend. He’s nearly blind, with one eye. They think he can sense light and dark with his eye, but not see with it. His other eye, I…

feb_19, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. We took a bit of a speculative walk around one of the nearby olive groves, with Bob and Bentley, to see if the asparagus season has started. We found this piece and one…

Yesterday was Carnival. Despite our planning, we didn’t go in costume. But we WILL next year. A lot of people dress up, a ‘dressing up box’ appears to be a standard feature in most homes.  These robots are my class,…

I use comparing traditions as a good way for the older students to practice speaking and listening. We’ve just started Easter and I have been aware that when I tell them about tradition of palm crosses at Palm Sunday they…

This was our cycle ride yesterday, this hills behind me are the Sierra de Bienvenida (the same hills that are in our blog header pic), we were going towards Llerena. It was a nice cycle ride and a track we…

We have seen a number of changes since we’ve been here. The swimming pool, sports hall, padel courts, starter homes, street lighting etc. There is generally one big project a year and this year’s big project looks like being a…

It has been very cold the last couple of days. It was the first time that the temperature has gone under freezing this winter and I think that this will have put pay to my pot plants which have been…

Here’s why I’ve been so quiet over the last week: I’m currently drawing monsters as these are useful for counting, colour and prepositions and they will look nice and colourful on the site. While I am drawing monsters, Ian…

jan_23, a photo by ian_pullen on Flickr. We’d been unable to agree on a knife block for a year and it was pure fluke that we chanced upon this in the El Corte Inglés sale in Badajoz.