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  • April 16, 2018

    I LIKE DUCKS TO WATER

      SOMETIMES there are little Instagram videos that you just can’t miss. This is a milestone moment. I gave the ducklings a dish of water and they took to it – Like Ducks to Water!

  • April 16, 2018

    SUMO PIG

    SUMO PIG

    HAVE you seen that postcard with the enormous sumo-wrestler.  He stands with his feet wide apart to support his girth and the small child holding up his belly? (It is not a very happy image but it has been on stands for years you may have seen it). His feet are planted wide apart to…

  • April 15, 2018

    BEAT THE WAITING WITH A STICK

    BEAT THE WAITING WITH A STICK

    HUNKERING down. Closing one’s eyes and accepting that the weather has turned rotton seems to work for the animals. The rain has come with my least favourite wind.  The Nor’East. Strong. And back in they went the animals. Two by two and three by three and even six.  Into their beds and corners. Out they come…

  • April 14, 2018

    KICKING THE COWPATS

    KICKING THE COWPATS

    I was out kicking cowpats yesterday afternoon – as you do.  As you would – if you had seasoned cowpats to kick. But they need to be properly seasoned.  If you kick them when they are too wet they stick to your gumboots. if you kick them when they are too dry they fly like…

  • April 13, 2018

    SLEEPING WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN

    SLEEPING WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN

    POPPY has her doors open wide now and everything is so much calmer in the farrowing pen.  I have the windows open in the house and both of us are losing that claustrophobic feeling. 

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