and a cuddle

We don’t have mains drainage outside of the villages and once (sometimes twice) a year the water treatment plant (septic tank) needs to be emptied. We have used the same company every time and this year they have a new lorry about which they are very proud. It cost over a quarter of a million pounds!

The charming driver is also carrying out essential maintenance work for Affinity Water – keeping us all safe and flowing.

Nuzzled by Helly and he also licks my ear and tries to bite it. Best fun ever

Mama Silkie teaches her chicks to search and scratch and eat the corn that we give them each morning.

Well wiped before it was put in my letterbox, a dear friend and neighbour picked this book up pre corona shutdown days. She has no plans (at present) to keep goats. Although we do have a boy and girl, Harry and Meghan, who might be looking for a good home in the future!

We hear the infrequent and comforting sound of tractors trundling up and down the fields. There are cars – not too many – and people’s voices communicating as they ride by on their bicycles. But the skies have been quiet for weeks until this morning. Click below