Has been baking sour dough chollahs for Rosh Hashanah.

The round loaves symbolise continuity and the hand is open in supplication. The Jewish New Year is a time when we ask the Almighty for a good judgement – another year on this planet – a year of health and tranquillity. I wish everyone a Shanah Tovah – a good year and that you be written into the Book of Life.

Where 35 children and 30 assorted parents and carers and grandparents joined in with the singing at rhyme time It was great fun but I came home tired and with hardly any voice. I tried out a new song and it worked. I might try another next week (otherwise I get bored).

Back at home the goats enjoyed the windfall pears

The bees enjoy the foxgloves and I enjoy looking at them flying in and out of the bell-shaped flowers

Out in the field the walnut trees are being raided by squirrels

We reap the harvest of Jeremy’s work in the garden (and to a lesser extent mine too – watering and weeding and sowing and planting out all the flowers).

I just pulled up 8 rows of onions

They are now spread out to dry in the barn and will be stored in nets in the onion barn next week click below

He is going to a farm in Lincolnshire where there are 200 assorted sheep, several horses and most important of all there are two Royal Golden Guernsey nanny goats who have been searching for a registered RGG Billy goat. Below is the trailer in which he will travel to his new home