Month May 2005

or Dovina has been rehoused at a wildlife sanctuary. We did talk briefly about keeping her/him as he/she was rather cute, however we (unusually) saw sense and took Dovey to people who would know what to do. Good job we…

Not expected or in any way intended, however last night was a windy one and plenty of green debris was lying around this morning. At the front of the house there was a bird’s nest on the ground, but no…

When I was out counting lambs yesterday, I noticed that Bertha has turned into a boy. Not sure how this happened, because I am sure that she was a girl – and I can’t believe I got it wrong (again).…

Not ours though. On Saturday some people were walking up the cycle track. Ian went out to do his ‘Get orf our land’ bit (until the fencing is finished we don’t want people wandering), and he noticed that they were…

I have recovered from last weeks trauma, although an official looking brown envelope arrived during the week post marked Team Valley Post Office and I thought it might have been a bill from the P.O. I was too scared to…

Actually it wasn’t a bad week, but the loss of Scooter was sad. Last year we lost 3 of 5 pet lambs and were told by farmers that the loss amongst pets wasn’t unusual, as you can’t substitute a mother…

The tup died on Monday. We were not suprised as he seemed to be going down hill & it was probably for the best. What we were not expecting, though, was that Scooter died yesterday. We were both shocked as…

Felt being laid out 

We’ve had an interesting weekend, largely due to spending saturday helping Kate to felt a banoose. Apparently it’s a north african cape type thing. North africans must be huge as the piece measured 18′ x 9′, and as such covered…