The animals

The chickens, bantams, rabbits and the …

A Swallow doesn’t…

Know what it’s doing. I posted this on Facebook: “ Swallows in on my mind. They arrive here in April,…

3 months ago

Necessity is the…

Mother of invention, it is said. Shearing time for the girls, time to get rid of the winter overcoats and…

4 months ago

Grass cutting is easy…

Grass cutting is easy. Up and down lines neatly adjacent, stop, empty the collector into the barrow (found on the…

5 months ago

About time too…

When we moved here, nine years ago (coming up) we had an unbelievable selling situation with the purchasers taking the…

5 months ago

Ashes to ashes…

A lovely day to scatter George’s ashes with Rosie’s under her tree. Thanks to the pair of you, you taught…

5 months ago

A love story…

A love story, or how anthropomorphism (our ability to turn animal things into human perspectives) is alive and well. An…

5 months ago

Taylor update…

Five weeks in and we have taken the hard decision to return her to the rescue charity. She is an…

5 months ago

15 days in…

and Taylor is settling in well. Well, not so well maybe. Following the sad and quick demise of George (his…

6 months ago

Shepherding

Time up in the wild flower meadow. Good to trample the seeds in, and trim the grass to give them…

10 months ago