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Christmas is coming, soonish.
Well it will be for these birdies.They belong to a friend of mine who is a bit of a smallholder, they have a couple of pigs, about 7 sheep, hens, ducks and these, oh yes and a pony but I dont think...
View ArticleAway Day
It's been a busy week, or rather parts have been busy and the rest seems so.The Organic inspection went well, no slapped wrists, just record more stuff next time and more forms to fill.That night we...
View ArticleStir up Sunday
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord....
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Tup Tup Tupping
These are our four charolais Tups, big boys arent they? They have spent the summer doing nothing, bit of eating, bit of wrestling with each other, but mostly they have just spent the time in the...
View ArticleCold and Even Colder.
Yesterday morning (saturday) we woke up to a sprinkling of snow, not enough to do anything with but very pretty.Richard came in saying that it had been -7c overnight but that all the water was still...
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Stirring It Up
Yesterday I finally got round to making my christmas pudding, it's really not hard at all, and the only bit that takes time is steaming it, 4 hours now and 4 on christmas day.In the bowl are raisins,...
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Baked a Cake
I turned this into that. This is my maternal Grandmothers Christmas cake recipe, which I make every year, when the children were babies it lasted us till the end of February, but with 3 extra hungry...
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Winter is upon us
We had snow last week, and we've still got most of it. The night time temp got down to -13c which meant that most of the cattle troughs froze up and Richard had to try and drain every last drop of...
View ArticleThats Life
Last night we did a ceasarian section on a cow, well the vet did it and Richard and I assisted, in my case mostly holding the light and other things.The cow was due to give birth any time now but R was...
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Another Day
A wall of straw arrived today, it's actually a lorry and trailer but from this angle it looks like a wall. The driver was undoing the straps while Richard got out the Manitou handler to unload it all,...
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Winters Icy Grip
Well the snow came back at the weekend, not much for us but the temperatures were really low and all the dairy water froze again, Richard put us back on the mains as the spring supply is frozen . We...
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Its Been So Long
Wow its been ages since I posted as I have been reminded by my loyal reader, thankyou Fluff!I find that its one of those things where the less I post the more it takes to get me to get on with it.We...
View ArticleGood Deed for the Day
I went to give blood this evening, I've been donating blood since I was 19 and am up to 45 units now, which considering time out for 3 pregnancies is not bad.I do it because its the right thing to do,...
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Who Needs TV
Our oven died just before christmas, inconvenient but no great loss, I still had the Rayburn to cook with and the old oven was one that we bought for £40 about 8 years ago.Anyway we ordered a new...
View ArticleLife Skills
I'm wondering when is a good age to teach my children how to change the sheets and duvet covers on their beds.I started doing mine when I went away to boarding school at 11, we were issued with a clean...
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Looks Like Starbug
We have been having problems with the tank washer, which automatically cleans the bulk milk tank when it has been emptied. Its one of those machines that always seems to go wrong, water, pcb, iodine...
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Some Days You Win, Others Not So Much.
Our Dairy Herd is regularly tested for TB, this involves the vet injecting each animal with a tiny amount of both Avian and Bovine TB, then checking 72 hours later to see if there has been any reaction...
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All Change at the Library
Its going to be all change at our local Library, they are closing on the 15th Feb for three weeks for"refurbishment"According to the Librarians this includes going "self service". Im not sure what...
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Well Done Boys
We had our sheep scanned on monday, a good day weatherwise since it rained on sunday and tuesday and indeed on monday afternoon, but the morning was sunny.The tups had done good work as of the 150...
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Mea Culpa
I've been too lazy to blog! Yes I admit it, I have had lots of good intentions, read other peoples blogs, made a note of things that have happened and then done nothing. Well not "nothing" nothing,...
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Farm Cats
The cats are on the payroll here, they are vermin control and the business pays their feed and vet bills. They get dry cat food 2 or 3 times a day, if they are hanging around looking hungry and the...
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Busy day
I meant to post this picture of F holding the lamb yesterday but forgot. It was taken on monday when she announced she had told everyone in her class about the new lamb and needed a picture of her...
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Sad Cows
This is a whole herd of cows who are desperate to go outside, they have been inside for over 4, nearly 5 months now, with only a short walk across the concrete yard to be milked twice a day. For most...
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Like Bo Peep we've lost some sheep!
We brought our flock of expectant ewes home today for lambing time, they are due to start on April 19th, which is 5 months from when we put the tups in with them, they have all been scanned so we know...
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Sheep Update
We found the lost sheep...... we had them all the time, Richard has been sent back to school for more practice in adding up, we counted the number of ewes on each load and made a list the he added...
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