We are now short of barley straw, but Andrew, our supplier at Pen y Bont, is not expected for a couple of weeks. To Andrew’s farm to get hay as a stop gap. Donkeys can put to much weight on if they only have hay, so straw is less nutritious but it is bulky which fills them up.
“Do want cats?”, says Andrew. His farm cats keep having litters. “Help yourself to as many as you want”.
“Our dogs chase and kill small and white fluffy things, so I think best not!”.
More fishy goings on in our pond. There was I observing the frogspawn and my…
Is river rock-pooling a thing? It is on the Wye, especially when the frogs are…
A polytunnel! “If it takes two or three men, two or three days to erect…
It feels a bit false to say that because we have only known the greenhouse…
Yes, there are dull days in January. Dull, dreary, dreich, cold, freezing, snowy (or “wintry…
We had a software glitch which rendered the site unstable. We are glad to report…