Donkey (horse) play
Got the divil in them again,
Arkwrights
A small hardware store in Rhayader made its own Christmas video. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/tiny-welsh-hardware-store-created-13943298 This shop is extra-ordinary – just like the original Arkwright from the Beeb series. Now run by the Grandson of the original owners in partnership with them. You […]
The surge
Overnight rain was followed bye a drier patch and the river went down four feet. It’s gone down a foot in an hour. But it’s raining heavily now, so will it come back up.
Another Egret
Gotcha! Not brilliant, but got a picture of him. According to the RSPB, there are 35 in the country – is this 36?
Daffodil planting time
The first major planting in the garden for some years. Roll on Spring!
Egrets, I have a few
Great white that is Shown courtesy of RSPB. The local twitterati have mentioned a sighting upstream from us, and now we have had two sightings today. The first was with a Heron and the two were definitely seeing eye to […]
Two in two days – cluck, cluck.
Two chucks died in two days, not a good week, and not a good record. One of the old girls, a real beaut, had her final days. Meaty girl, big hole. The other was a bantam who had a small […]
That caught us out!
Didn’t expect -3 last night. The taps were frozen, the buckets are frozen over, the Donks are eating every last bit, come on sun, warm us up!
Tuppeny bit
IT’S TUP TIME! Time to put the ram to the ewes. Here he is, A quick trip to Llandod ended in a face-off up the track, with the nose of the car meeting the bull nose of the ram, until […]