make a nest round here? Quelle dilemma – they started speccing the Donks stable yesterday, flying in and out and perching on the phone line just watching the comings and goings. But… they are messy aren’t they? And the beautiful […]
This is Cookie – pronounced Koo-key because she is one button short of a full pooh tray – or is she? Sandie is cleaning her out – nice and clean and mostly poohing in the provided tray (good girl), turns […]
Early morning with the Donks. We give them an early morning Annette (a net – geddit?). Not giving up on the day job just yet – as Bob Monkhouse said “They used to laugh at me when I said I […]
At long last we have some help in the garden. After an exhausting round of interviews, our specialist recruitment team have recommended a unique person. We interviewed him in turn, and we have to say he is the biz. A […]
THE MOTHER OF ALL BALES! Small bale straw not available, so had to have this one enormous large bale. So big it extended out of the rear of the trailer. Measuring 8′ x 4′ x 3′ and weighing half a […]
I suppose after the time we’ve been together, 35 years man and boy, we do things together naturally. We share everything, the last Rolo, when its heavy lifting Sandie does her share, just like yesterday, offloading one whole bale of straw, […]
BBC radio 4 weather forecast “we have some useful weather today “. What is that?
… and most of the glass is gone! Ooops, sorry, wrong Swallow. Our first sighting of our favourite birds. In Hampshire they used to swoop over the watercress beds in magnificent displays; but usually towards the end of the month […]
Here we are on the road to Llandod for the shops. It pays to keep as sharp eye on the road ahead just to make sure the traffic cops (Heddlu) aren’t about.
The days are slowly warming and the garden is coming into it’s own. The soundtrack is of continuous birdsong and lamb bleats – heaven. Beside the pond is a primula denticulata The wild flower meadow has produced a fritillery and […]