Whippet crossed with greyhound and Bedlington – beautiful 8 month old lurchers.
If you need someone to feed and walk your dogs or take care of your cats and horses and any other of your beloved pets then Sam’s your woman. She’s brilliant with animals snd (if I ever go away – which I doubt) I’d even trust her to milk the goat!
And another piece of shameless advertising for brother Michael. I wish I lived nearer to him or he performed around here. I might try to get him some local gigs.
From a villager (and her lovely lurcher dog) who thought my chickens might have escaped. They hadn’t. It’s my neighbours chooks who go walk about across the road.
And when I mentioned that we had lived in Devon over 40 years ago she asked if I knew the Quickes. I knew their dairy and their farm shop just outside the village of Newton St Cyrs which I passed on my way home from working in Exeter. She had discovered a connection in her grandparents family. I told her that they made fantastic butter, cheese and ice cream and a friend of ours used to work in the dairy and serve in the shop. It’s always good to meet new village neighbours and share histories and connections.
I learn of the death of the last white president of South Africa, F W de Klerk who received the Nobel prize alongside Nelson Mandela for overseeing the peaceful dismantling of the apartheid system. My son reminded me that at a conference in Vienna in 2015 he met de Klerk
I threw some bread into the paddock run this morning. The chicks were quick to grab their share of the bounty
Now that the weather is changing the tai chi classes are moving indoors to The Jubilee Hall in Eaton Socon.
The Cage was used until the late 19th century, latterly for incarcerating a drunkard. Then it fell into disrepair and the building was restored in 1983 by the local council. To my eye it is insensitive and out of place to stick a sign on this historic building pointing the way to the Jubilee Hall. It looks absurd!
For more information on the Cage you can click on the following link
The Eaton Socon Cage
I think we will find it difficult to get her off the bottle. Her call is hard to resist and while she drink her milk I get “lamb cuddles”.
As we continue the autumn “tidy up” there are wheelbarrows full of bean plants and squash plants. We will have to ration the helpings or risk bloated goats!
In the duck house the “gang of four” got indoors before Lucy the goose and her companion Lola. They ate their supper before the goose went inside and pushed them out of the way. She’s a hungry goose.
The sun set on another beautiful day
