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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

seems to have forgotten her ducklings. She and Waldo, plus the two ducklings who Little Sheep brooded have bonded and the four of them are quacking round the garden. The ducklings have settled down upstairs and look quite happy. I…

Duckling 

A pile of Ducklings