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!”.
Impatiens glandulifera, Himalayan balsam, is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. Via human…
A gulp of Cormorants. Apparently that’s the collective noun; or a swim (I like that).…
Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s…
Three months into playing in the tunnel, what is it looking like? https://youtu.be/L9Da85uCQUQ?is=4wKPIP_pLAxEz5gp
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…