Leishmania – Francesca's Thoughts

21/05/2019

Let me introduce you to a friend

I want to tell you all about a friend of mine. He moved to England a few years ago for a better life, but he speaks very little English, hasn’t yet found a job and has never, as far as I’m aware, paid any tax. He sits around a lot and his efforts to integrate with Continue reading

Dogs

cancer in dogs, dogs, elderly dogs, Indifferent Ignorance, Leishmania

29/07/2013

I Wrote This Lovely Post About My Dogs Then One of Them Refused to Acknowledge My Existence and Made Me Late

(It was all academic though, because I fucked up times and should have been there four-and-a-half hours earlier.) I spent half an hour last week working on my CV, which is… interesting. I get that we have to sell ourselves and everything, but it’s hard to explain that my favourite hobby – sitting with Fred and Adonis and falling Continue reading

Dogs, July 2013, My Family and Other Animals, Photogenius

Adonis, blankets, dogs, Fred, Indifferent Ignorance, Leishmania, Leishmaniasis, medication, old-man dogs, playing catch, sofas, tablets

20/12/2012

Some News (and I’m not being funny this time)

Do all you non-real-life readers remember Donnie? I don’t think I introduced him properly. My family found him – or rather, he found my family – in Greece in April last year, and we brought him home at the end of last January. He’s this little thing with huge webbed feet and a wonky face who Continue reading

December 2012

Indifferent Ignorance, Leishmania, Leishmaniasis