Year: 2017

#Carp a Diem #W(r)ye Asides

A Radnorshire lad

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“Radnor born, and Radnor bred, Strong in the arm, and weak in the head”.

#Area #Doings #The garden

Anyone seen Trump?

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Some say he is in Rome with the Pope. We know different – spotted today in Builth.

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Spring Festival

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Off to the Royal Welsh showground for the Spring Festival – used to be called the Smallholder show.  Fascinating! Appealing Alpacas Goats in harmony.Quite a few vintage pieces around. Sheep anyone?

#Doings #The animals

Fun with tractors part 3

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Take the rubbish to the top of the track – a simple task complicated by the sheep who need careful herding away from the cattle grid (observant readers will have noted several themes and this is one of them).  So […]

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Slow moving traffic ahead..

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… the little one behind, must only be a week old or so. The sheep love to sit on the track (dry, warm from the sun) and gradually they get the point and move.  The problem as we have said […]

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Bluebell time

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Not far away, maybe five miles, is a spectacular spot – take a peek here

#The animals #The garden

Shake, no rattle and roll

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The Leadbetters at play. Enjoying it or what?

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The sheep hazard

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Simple jobs like driving up the track to go shopping involves hearding sheep. This occasion was about a lamb that had got separated from his mother and was on the main road side of the cattle grid.  To drive up […]

#Area #The garden #Weather

Rain!

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“The driest winter and spring I have ever known”, was how the farmer described it. The River is at the lowest we’ve seen it… You could almost walk across it.  Thank goodness for some rain, but still not enough.  Those […]

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Mr MacGegor’s not ‘appy!

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Fenced the veg plot, and put out the Brussels yesterday. And this morning…..! Little cottontail is going to have “some lead in his ear”!