The last two ewe lambs have been loaded into a trailer belonging to a lovely couple with a small holding 20 minutes away.

They will join some Shetland sheep and two goats. Bye bye pretty girls. Have fun.

Into the oven to roast

Mill Road is narrow and on either side of the two sharp bends are deep ditches. Today, on the way to St Neots along Bushmead Road, a policewoman was directing the traffic away from an accident site between a lorry and a car. On the way home, as I drove through The Cut on Mill Road, I was halted by two cars. One was stopped in the middle of the single lane and the other was sideways up in the ditch. Both drivers were shaken but unhurt.

I remember learning, on a speed awareness course (in lieu of points in my licence!), that accidents on country roads often cause more injury than in town. One reason is that no one knows you are there in an isolated stretch of road or in a ditch. So watch out on our twisty lanes and country byways. Btw if anyone knows where I have put my precious bunch of keys please let me know. I haven’t left The Gables for two days yet they have disappeared. Nigel, was it you?

Good on Peter and his men, who finished grouting the new paving slabs in the front of the courtyard last night. Just in time.

The JCB will be moving out this morning and I will spend the day indoors cooking.

Butternut squashes, tromboncinos and little pumpkins.

Up goes the Succah ahead of the feast of Tabernacles on Sunday.

Lucy is out and about, eating and drinking and grooming Lucy by licking her all over (fussy mother as per usual).

The vet called with the blood test results. A magnesium and calcium deficiency probably due to the quality of grazing being poor at the end of the summer. So it’s hay, hay and more hay in addition to the grass. The vet had given Lucy two bottles of calcium subcutaneously and a shot of magnesium on Tuesday – well done that vet. A lovely, young Portuguese woman. Will she stay after Brexit? So many people working here are EU nationals as I discovered when I was having my hip replacement 18 months ago. Out of all the hospital nurses only one was English. Talking of joint replacements, Chris popped in this morning. His new knee is working well and he is taking long walks every day. He came over to see all the animals and couldn’t believe how fast the quails have grown. They are as big, if not bigger, than the four adults.