Thirteen of the lambs are due to be leaving us this afternoon, including my beloved Helly.

The fruit flies drive me crazy. Congregating in the kitchen and on the windows

I don’t like using toxic sprays so googled a solution. It involves a glass or dish partially filled with apple cider vinegar, covered with cling film and secured with a rubber band. Puncture holes in the film big enough for the fruit flies to enter but NOT to leave! It seems to be working.

Give a lamb a gap and it will get through. Helly found a gap in the fence and, as we were sitting having a cuppa under the pergola, he appeared around the side of the greenhouse

We were planting tiny leeks, this morning, in the newly ploughed far end of the garden

The sun came out and I took my coat back to the house and on my way to the kitchen door I came across a beautiful red admiral butterfly

The other Silkie hen has gone broody and is sitting on 8 assorted eggs in the chicken ark

We don’t want any more Silkie hens (the other Mrs Silkie has six Silkie chicks that she hatched a few weeks ago)

so we have given this hen a mixture of eggs to sit on and in three weeks time we will see what we have. Don’t count your chickens……..

Mrs Goosey has now laid four eggs. To keep the crows away Jeremy set up a rudimentary lean-to shelter today to shield the eggs. We are waiting for goosey to start sitting