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“Ooh he smells odd” says Henry. “This end’s still the same” says Bob. 

“Oooh, he smells odd” says Basil 

My wife is funny. Most mornings we wake to Today on Radio 4, and I gave up all attempts to change the dial to Radio 1 many years ago. However this morning I awoke to discover Kate playing Five’s Greatest…

It is five years since Ian met Bob, and it was love at first sight. A little later he noticed that Bob had an owner (me)! Five years ago the 10th was on a Saturday, and I had picked Susan…

The sun is out today – for the first time for a long time. The last few days have been very wet, and although it has been mild, it has been damp and miserable. I hope that it is here…

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…