Yesterday we had to visit the farm to give our contractor a new key. We had only checked one of the keys for the front gate and not the one to the front door and unfortunately the latter didn’t work. This meant he hadn’t been able to get inside to fix the leaking heater he […]

Ayla got to meet a whole other side of hubby’s family today. Unfortunately it could have been under better circumstances since it was due to a death in the family but it was still nice to see everyone. And it was convenient for Ayla because most people were wearing black and not so bothered with […]

So the contractor, Macky, was supposed to go to the house on Monday to fix the leak with the heater. But apparently the key we gave him didn’t actually work and because hubber’s blackberry was dead the last few days, we didn’t get the message when the guy said he couldn’t get in. Lovely. We […]

As of today, we have sold the old funky kitchen which was in our house. We had definitely hoped to get a lot more money from it but at least we still got €150 and that will at least help us recoop a tiny bit of what we’ve paid out for trash containers and other […]

Yesterday evening, hubby and I took Ayla for her evening walk. She’s been relatively good lately and I’m trying to trust her a bit more so I figured I would take her off leash as soon as we got to the fields behind our house and when I’d seen there were no other dogs around. […]