The geese lay in spring for a couple of months but the Silkies lay spring, summer and autumn with a few during the dark days of winter.

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