To clarify the present summer break, in response to a few emails to me from readers, the equusasinus.net blog will continue and this break at the end of the long COVID-19 lockdown in Spain is temporary. Reader numbers were the lowest in ten years and it seemed there was such competing demand on everyone’s time … More We’ll meet again

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020, marking a decade since the blog began. This morning the van arrived from Nutrivila with the donkeys’ food. Tito climbed out of the cab putting on a face mask and I put on mine before greeting him. We unloaded the 25 bales of straw and three bales … More 3. The old normal

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020. Each week I will republish two or three old posts: these excerpts are from the old Brother Lapin’s Pilgrimage blog, in France in the summer of 2010. As with most things to do with time and memory, things become compressed or transposed. I was quite taken aback … More 2. A time of waiting: Summer 2010

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020. This blog post is from the old Brother Lapin’s Pilgrimage blog, ten years ago. Each week I will republish two or three old posts: this is the first. https://brotherlapin.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/st-jacques-in-chatellerault/ When I wrote this blog post ten years ago, I was travelling on a bicycle from Canterbury to … More 1. St-Jacques in Chatellerault: July 2010

Tomorrow, Rubí donkey will write (writ? writtied? wrotteried?) her usual Tuesday blogue.  Her subject tomorrow remains  Envirionmental Enrichiment the next part of it (being Part 2, which follows from Part 1, and that is a credit to Rubí’s clear focus on the sequencing.) After that the equusasinus.net blog will take readers on a ten year … More Ten years of the blog, 2010-2020

Por primera vez en diez años desde que comencé este blog en Francia en 2010 (poco antes de venir a trabajar a España), escribo mi blog en español. Si eres inglés, busca un traductor: ¡es bastante fácil y los españoles tienen que hacerlo con suficiente frecuencia!  Y si eres inglés y has estado en España … More La nueva normalidad

In these very strange days of COVID-19, it seems hard to believe that it was only six months ago that the only life-or-death battle we knew was between EU Leavers v. Remainers. Having EU-remain British friends in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and various other EU countries, as well as friends and family in the UK, … More The real killer is Brexit

The 3rd of May is the Feast of the Holy Cross, a very old feast of the Church. It is celebrated in Spain with very ornate flowery crosses. In Anglican usage it was celebrated with the lovely name of “Roodmas”; Rood being another name for the cross. Hence “roodscreen,” the ornate separation between the nave … More Happy Roodmas everyone!