Nice Colours
Last night when we went to bed, our damaged quail chick had absconded from the box he shares with a guinea fowl chick and was roaming loose in the spare bedroom. My personal feeling on this was good luck to…
Ian
Chicken Fishing
If you’ve got a TV, you’ve probably never even thought about chicken fishing. However it’s a major past time ‘oop here, and, I understand, about to become a major spectator sport on the TV sets of the south. …
my toy doesn’t work
Well tonight I actually started writing my blog on my handheld with the intention of hotsynching to the pc and uploading from there. Unfotunately for some reason I can no longer connect the handheld to the PC. I’ll get it…
Don’t look her in the eye!
Well the Mineral House menagerie increases again courtesy of Crumpet and Stud Muffin. As I see that Kate has already explained, Crumpet had been some way over her expected time. In fact Kate has redone her maths and now believes…
It might not be pretty…
…but at this moment in time I truly believe that the barbed wire that I have run approximately along the top of the dry stone wall facing the road will prevent any sheep from breaking out of land. Admittedly we…
gutted
I’m so glad that we found Lambey’s body today but I really am so sad that her hard fight through adversity should end so sadly. A week and a half earlier I’d been amazed to find her still alive after…
saturday things
Once more I am trusted not to bring the household into disrepute. We’ve had a reasonable day. Found a fantastic light in a Brampton charity shop. £10 which is a sum I never thought we’d contemplate spending in the cerebral…
brief lambey update
The lamb that last week I thought would drop dead at any moment has continued to prove me rather wrong. Yesterday she started to get up onto her feet, though could only manage a couple of steps before falling over.…
and then there was light…INDEED!
At this time of year in this part of the country, it doesn’t get dark till nearly 11pm and gets light again about 3.30am; who needs lights? We could have gone another 8 weeks before it started to become an…
No-more No-Name
Unfortunately No-Name died during the night. Took her up to sleep in our room and Kate checked her at 2am. Think she died quite shortly after we’d gone to bed. Don’t know what the cause was, but hope it’s not…