I took the camera out with me on my afternoon walk as I wanted to photograph the buzzard that has taken up residence on Mill Road near the brickworks. Every time I got close a car came by and the buzzard flew off.
The outside world intrudes on the hour as I hear the BBC radio news. I spoke with a close friend in Lviv who had received an email suggesting she leave Ukraine. Another friend in Kiev is staying calm and went to a concert last night. Both are staying put and we are praying for peace.
I’m grateful for being able to attend so many talks and events on zoom. Tonight it was a talk from American writer and lawyer Ingrid Alpern. She was talking about and answering questions on her book
This talk was programmed in the week when Holocaust Memorial Day falls, on 27th January, and the writer described the terrifying journey that her mother and grandmother and three other family members made out of Holland, via Belgium, then France them to Surinam and finally to America. Out of an initial group of 20 refugees who left Holland together only this small family survived due to false papers supplied by a man in the Dutch Embassy they approached when they entered France.
An hour on zoom, in front of the fire, with a coffee next to me and Mabel on my lap is infinitely preferable to making a car journey to a draughty village hall to listen to a speaker. Did we use to do that? Not any more!
These twin girls were born in February 2021 and are not fully grown. The lived in the paddock with their mother Pinky for some months and are still very friendly
We don’t know if either of the twins is pregnant but we hope that they are not
Sounds like an online dating advert but Meghan was in season on Friday and looking for a mate
The problem is that there is only a 12 hour window in which a goat in season can become pregnant and that window had closed by the time I located a mate for Meghan. In three weeks time I will contact the goat keeper again snd she will (if possible) rush the Billy over to The Gables to mate with Meghan.
Meanwhile on the sheep front I have been waiting for lambs for two weeks. Jeremy has said all along that there would not be any until Burns Night (25th January). I’m always impatient and he’s usually right!
Airship set to fly over Bedford town centre on Sunday for the first time in years (from the paper Bedford Today)
Some old friends, some new
