Kate Pullen

What a shock! We had Horrace, our big stud ram who fathered all of our lambs this year, sheared. And he shrunk! He is tiny under all of that fleece. Herdies are much smaller than they at first appear, I…

by putting ply wood over the windows of the chicken shed, we make their home dark, which makes them sleep which means that Kevin and Simon (and Mr Silkie) don’t feel the need to crow from 3.30 onwards. Bliss! They…

Ian says that the hill is nicely in focus! However at least it proves we do have owl!!! 

We’ve got a mouse problem. We knew that there was one downstairs as something has been nibbling my rice cakes – and strangely I knew that it wasn’t Ian! However there was one under the floor boards upstairs –we saw…

Genghis looking slightly spooky! 

Another design fault in sheep, well ours in particular is that Herdwicks are born black and then spend the first three months of their life turning their faces and legs white and their bodies grey. This happens really rapidly –…

Hello Duckie 

Well, of course, writing a Blog means that we have to write bad and good, happy and sad; we can’t just pick on the happy things to write about. Well, I suppose we could but it would give a very…

Well, today we found Lambey’s body. She had wandered and there was no sign of an attack. So, although we were very sad to find her, we were relieved that she had died of natural causes and not ‘taken’. It…

Lambey disappeared. literally. At 8.00 pm she was outside munching on grass, 10.00 she had disappeared. No sign of her at all. She could have wandered off but she was still a bit wobbly on her legs, or something could…