With 70 other Tai Chi enthusiasts

I returned home to find that Jeremy had put together the trampoline that a friend in London had offloaded on us. It now needs a safety net

The goats are wearing their smart new collars

And I met someone who has played music in the barn at The Gables!

The chicks enjoy their corn and a present arrives for the goats.

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New collars and leads for Willow and Wisp. “Walkies!”

She even had her hair styled by the hairdresser who has a salon room and visits twice a week.

The lunch and Friday night dinner menu looked good and mum says the food is tasty and there is a choice at every meal.

The gorgeous, copper beech comes into its own in autumn

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Asparagus ferns and seeds above and perpetual kale below

And “forage” for “afters”.

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Willow and Wisp played in the paddock for a few minutes before going back inside.

Mud and puddles everywhere and the chickens refuse to leave their houses.

I feel the same way. For some solace I went into the dry polytunnel. Chilli Peppers and aubergines are still growing inside the tunnel.

Goats don’t like rain so they will stay in today.

I feel so very sad for the farmers and all the people who are living in flood conditions. My heart goes out to them.

Today dad would have been 92 (he died 5 and a half years ago aged 86).

Sitting on his dad’s lap (our grandpa Sam who survived The Battle of the Somme).

Married at 21 to his darling Sybil with whom he enjoyed 65 amazing years.

They held their 65th anniversary party at The Gables

I began this blog on dad’s birthday, November 13th 2013 and dad used to receive all the posts on his computer. He wasn’t an animal lover and he had a highly sensitive sense of smell – he would have thought that Willow and Wisp looked pretty from afar but he wouldn’t have liked their distinctive “goat” smell! He didn’t really understand why J and I wanted to live in the countryside- he was a city dweller all his life and loved theatre, film, music, and his golf, tennis, snooker and bridge. One family, different lifestyles. Happy Birthday and I hope you still can read the blogs wherever you are. Please look out for us all.

“Goat update”……We let the girls out for a few minutes to explore the paddock.

We enticed them back with their delicious concentrates. Slowly, slowly girls.

The sheep and cows formed a delegation at the paddock gate. They want to know who has joined the clan.