Posted By On Feb 2013 | 0 Comments
Well it’s been a fairly good week weather wise and the paddocks were just starting to dry out nicely. The alpacas were enjoying their days back out on the grass, glad to see the back of the barn, I should imagine.
Then the weekend starts and we have had snow, some heavy rain and have been left with constant drizzle. How much more of this weather can the paddocks take, I don’t know, but I can guess at not much more.
I ...
Continue Reading →Posted By On Feb 2013 | 1 Comments
Neil had a day off today and spent the morning in Birmingham picking up a replacement hatch back for our eldest daughters Micra. Some nice person had driven into the back of her car when it was parked outside a friend’s house and drove off without leaving their insurance details, obviously an honest person, not!
A replacement back end collected and after some running around for me on the way home, Neil made it home with daylight hours still to spare.
So being ...
Continue Reading →Posted By On Feb 2013 | 1 Comments
Daisy our German Shepherd went to the dog groomers today, we have to tell her she’s going swimming otherwise our other dog, Alfie, cries all the time she’s gone.
Alfie had to go swimming twice a week up until the age of two as he has hip dysplasia and although it improved his condition he absolutely hated it. So the term going swimming works really well and we have a quite home while Daisy is away.
Daisy loves going swimming because she ...
Continue Reading →Posted By On Feb 2013 | 1 Comments
The trouble with knitting is that it leaves your mind free to wander and wander mine has been doing, even more so than usual. This normally means trouble for some one and that poor some one is almost inevitably Neil:0))
The direction these thoughts are taking are of improvements that we can make to the farm, to make bad weather conditions here better. I don’t think this will be the last bad summer and winter we will see and so I ...
Continue Reading →Posted By On Feb 2013 | 0 Comments
The sun has been shining but the fields are still waterlogged as every evening we seem to have another dose of heavy rain. I know the fields are bad as yesterday we had a heron wandering around one of the paddocks, I don’t know what it was hoping to find as we might be sodden but I don’t think we’ve any fish out there just yet. :0))
The Alpacas have settled nicely in to their new routine and are quite content ...
Continue Reading →