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Lucy enjoying chomping on the paddock grass

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New potatoes in the polytunnel and the greenhouse – how long until they are on my plate?

Mother hen is protecting you, little gosling, and keeping you warm under her feathers. I just lifted her up for a second to take a peek.

As we watch Chelsea(My team) beat Frankfurt in the semi finals of the Europa Cup

Arsenal beat Valencia (grandson and I were at the first leg last week). So it’s all English teams in the two European Cup Finals. Wow!

My nephew and his amateur football team took part in a charity football competition at The Emirates this afternoon. A lot of money was raised for The Arsenal Foundation that supports local causes

(my nephew is bottom left hand of photo above and second from left front rower in photo below ). My brother took the afternoon off work to watch and support the team. He just called to tell me that they won the competition!

Our sports loving and playing dad would have been so proud. Until the end he would go out in all weathers to watch his grandson play football and he watched my kids, over very many years, in all their sporting endeavours.

Mrs Bantie, in the orchard, has been sitting in splendid isolation for five weeks. Tonight, when Jeremy looked in on her to check that she had food and water, he lifted her up and found a newly hatched gosling beneath her feathers. Well done Mrs B. Will the other egg also hatch?

I get to pick some ripe strawberries as I work

and Lucy and Lily enjoy snacking on the weeds

Our local animal feed and general grocery store (in the next village) sells goose eggs and can’t get enough of them. We have a surplus so they went to the shop today along with a number of sticks of freshly pulled rhubarb. We shall see if they sell.

The Banties have abandoned the other three goose eggs so that they can concentrate on “bringing up baby”.

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Two nights in a row English teams have overcome almost impossible odds. Last night Liverpool beat Barcelona and just now we watched Tottenham beat Ajax in the final minute of the game.

What fabulous football – I am hoarse from shouting at the television.