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…

Well, we are getting a steady tickle of quails eggs. I think we have 10 now in total. There are probably two quails laying as we are getting two eggs a day, although I have read that they can lay…

Well, I was counting the quails yesterday (whilst I know that can’t really escape from their current home, I would not put it past one of the little blighters to make itself into a pencil shape and squeeze out through…

What a busy few days, however it is back to ‘normal’ now. Mum and Dad were here last week for a few days, and as they left, Rob, Nikki, Jessica and Naomi were on their way up for the weekend.…

A baby bunny  

We’ve had a valuation and the house is officially for sale. So, if anyone wants a house in the north….! This means we needed another tidy up for the photos, and to get some more of those outstanding jobs finished.…

First cold spell of the year today – look at ducks stood on the pond as water is frozen! 

Our bedroom (and yes, the bedspread is only for show and lives on top of wardrobe in the meantime) 

Other side of clock room looking out of window over stables 

Kitchen and Living room (ooops, perhaps I’ll move the wine bottle and the frying pan from the table and Ians washing off the kitchen table)