Tufty and son are getting to know the three ewes

Here at home the geese are noisy and hungry
They don’t realise that attacking me is not the best way to get fed!
In the garden we picked the last of the borlotti beans and some french beans that have purple beans inside their pods. I will be making a bean casserole tomorrow
The barn birds got a treat of cut up apples and greens. Perhaps they would lay me some eggs. I only got one today but that beats yesterday!

Glorious morning with a tinge of frost

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Then I came into the kitchen with a heavy milk pail. I strained the milk and put it into the lamb bottles (no wonder she’s so fat!). I turned on the tap and……

Plenty of hot water streamed into the sink and I washed all the implements and dried them. As the water ran I thought of the report I read this morning. A Bangladeshi woman who had given evidence at the COP conference in 2009 in Copenhagen. The reporter had returned to interview her. Nothing has changed in her village. Sea levels mean that their water contains salt and they have to walk long distances with heavy jugs to collect drinking water. Their homes are constantly under threat from further ingress. The crops don’t grow in salty water most of the promises made in Copenhagen in 2009 have not been honoured. Yet I can still jump on a plane, jump in my car, turn up my heating, throw away bagfuls off plastic, buy whatever clothes and goods I want at the touch of an Amazon click and, above all I can turn on my tap and receive endless supplies of clean, hot water. Something has to change or we are all f……… not just our forgotten brothers and sisters across the other side of the world. I’m sorry for my inaction dear woman in Bangladesh.

New residents in the paddock run

Phil and I moved their small henhouse to the paddock run and, so far, the long-standing resident hens seem quite unfazed by the new residents Click below

The goats say “it’s finger licking’ good!”.

The other hens, the survivors of the massacre and the Silkie flock, have settled into the old quail barn and even laid two eggs today

And the mystery present giver revealed himself as one of our oldest and dearest friends. Thank you for making Monday a very special day.