I hope the cold night temperatures won’t kill them off

I’ve sown some more seeds indoors just in case

Who are enjoying the blog – I’m delighted that you are following life in the Bedfordshire countryside. If you want to know more you can read my first book, Jews Milk Goats available on Amazon in America and Canada and through Amazon worldwide

And if that amuses and informs you about life as a smallholder you might also enjoy my second book, Cohencidence (also available on Amazon) a family memoir and a tribute to my parents.

Quiet Mabel snuck up onto the counter to lick the butter knife and toast crumbs!!! Click below

Then I raced off the The Framery at Kimbolton to get my stained glass birthday present measured for framing

The framer is a talented felter. Here’s an example of her work.

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One of them bottle fed Ginny and our visitors went home with some pieces of horseradish and sticks of ruby red rhubarb.

Then they helped us take the goats for a walk

I’m sorry Brian May but I have had too many losses from badgers who tear through wooden doors and floors and steal my ducks and chickens and their eggs.

We had a broody duck sitting on 15 eggs and sometime in the night a badger burrowed under her house and killed her and took her and most of the eggs. Poor old ducky.

I called Jeremy and with his electric drill he unscrewed the feeder and we disentangled the horn.

And then Chris came over to do some tractoring. The tractor started perfectly yesterday but refused to turn over this morning. I brought my car over to the garage and opened the bonnet and we attached jump leads and it’s warming up now.

That’s quite enough excitement for one day, thank you