A good day to burn the pile of sticks and branches – the remains of the brambles and cuttings that the goats have munched for the last 12 months.

There will be more leaves to sweep up tomorrow and the next day and the next…..

And Sandy stands up to her mother Willow to get her fair share of concentrates.

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Brought us a pretty pot plant called colloquially a “Joseph’s Coat”.

When we moved here 13 years ago, we saw lots of buzzards and very few red kites but now the balance has changed completely. The re-introduction of red kites which were endangered (which I mentioned in my book Jews Milk Goats) has been so successful that I hardly see buzzards yet come across red kites everywhere. Out for my daily constitutional just now I was delighted to come across a buzzard flying over the fields and resting on a tree branch.