Tag: animal rescue

  • Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes

    Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes

    We got back to Aberdeen today after a couple of nights in St Andrews. Daniel wanted to go to the university open day so we decided to make it a short family holiday. More on that later. Far more exciting right now is that not long after arriving back Victoria became obsessed with something behind…

  • Escaping Afghanistan with 200 dogs and cats

    I have been more than a little moved over the past 24 – 48 hours by the plight of Pen Farthing and the Nowzad animal rescue team in Afghanistan. They appeared in the news several weeks ago with Pen Farthing, a former British marine who served in Afghanistan, saying he would not leave the country…