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I wagged yesterday
No not my tail. I wagged work. I played hookey. I was a truant. Look at that calm shot. The wind was so terrible I had to rest the camera on a fence post to keep it still but you cannot see that wind! It was so windy and so cold that I regressed. I…
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Cows like to party too.
The visitors decided to hang out in the barn yard. Delighted by the nosy cows. Queenie mooched about chatting with the girls. And the boys. It was a lovely laid back evening with a glass of wine in the newly cleaned yards. Everyone could join in. Unless you are a pregnant sheep. Then No…
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Walkabout a sleepy farmy
A sleepy Sunday on the farmy for everyone but the farmers! How come they all get to doze while we rush about with wheelbarrows and fence posts. Life is good for little Queenie. At least, with Daisy, we have a date as to when she is due to calve, or at least a week. In…
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Kupa goes for a walk with the weekend blog introductions
Today I shall return to one of my favourite weekend posts. Introductions. There is so much to see in the blog world. The sheer strength of us as a collective is awesome. So here a few of the pages that I visited and particularly enjoyed this week. To sandwich Mimo between my wee peacock pages…
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New little golden Easter balls of fluff.
Another set of new arrivals have come to the Farmy. And are under a warm lamp in the basement. Sleeping. Where no cats are allowed for a while. These chickens will be handled often and will come to the old folks home with TonTon and I on ‘Celi’s Travelling Farmy Day’ later in the month.…
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Kupa the Peacock finds an unlikely friend
Kupa: So who are you then? Are you a minion? I was promised minions. Oh, maybe you are the butler then. Get me another drink. My champagne has gone flat. Peghorn: Uh no. I am not sure what a minion is but I am pretty sure I am not a butler, I am Peghorn your…
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