Ian

From Ian

I don’t often buy lottery tickets, but now and again I find myself in the Co-op a few hours before a draw and can’t help but buy a lucky dip, believing that the odds are so short it would be…

I’m starting to feel like Alistair Cooke, making an announcement to the world wide web on a weekly basis. Last Saturday was marred by the loss of two angora goats and the pervading fear that there would be more losses.…

Yesterday evening I think I discovered how it feels to be the parent of teenagers. As Kate has said, we shut off the Herdwick field yesterday with Freckles and Black Knees in there. However, just before sunset, Kate saw Freckles…

Yesterday, I happily agreed to taking Kate to the Upfront gallery inbetween Penrith and Wigton, for the first day of an exhibition of felt pictures that they were holding. Kate had been quite excited by this since hearing about it…

I’d have written this last night, but was still suffering from the humiliation of knowing that much of the work I have done over the last year to make people believe that I am a rufty tufty farmer was all…

The day started disappointingly for the pups today. After their success yesterday in locking Kate in the stable, they were keen to advance their skills and learn how to close the bolts on the stable doors, having developed quite supreme…

Has anyone seen it. I got it out of the library the other week thinking it’d be good film to watch after a day at the Alston Show, selling soap. We didn’t get around to watching it that night and…

I note that my better half has shared my moment of madness, but I should stress that it was nothing more than a entle shock. I’d finally got around to finishing the lighting in the dining room – I’d fitted…

In preparing the flat for the new tenants, I spent this evening installing a new electric shower as the previous shower had been unable to heat water. Apparently the last shower had been unable to heat water because there was…