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It’s a Girl!
Meet Txiki. (pronounced Chickie). I know! And she is so strong! She is kicking up her heels already. Gasps of delight from here too. And she is not black she is a dark chocolate brown. And Alex is being a stunning mother. She has not left her baby since she was born and licks her and…
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A Baby!!
Yes! Yesterday Alex the wee Dexter heifer began to spend just a little too much time staring out into space, standing in the corners, as far away from the others as she could get. Then she started holding her tail up high. I had a very distinct feeling that things were going to start happening very…
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Udder Watch.
We go through this every year don’t we! Waiting for the babies. So we are watching Poppy – no change. Lady Aster – filling up nicely. Alex- filling up too soon and Aunty Del – no change yet. Yesterday was wonderful – many of you rose to the invitation to share your work-spaces. For me…
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Where do you write?
Tima begged to come in from the field yesterday so last night she had the barn corridors to sleep in. It rained all day yesterday. And was cold and blowey. (Is that a word?) And by dinner time she had had quite enough of her little tin shed which is very dry but probably quite…
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make sure …
.. this life you have arranged for yourself is how you want your life to be. Because if what you are doing is not what you want to do -there will be troubles. Though to be fair there is tons of stuff we don’t want to do that we HAVE to do, dishes, and dusting for…
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anathema
anathema I love this word. I use it when I think of yesterdays weather. And it fits yesterday. This much snow in April is anathema to me and just Not Appropriate. I mean – HONESTLY. I have summer people coming and they need feeding and the deal is that I can invite as many people as…
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