For a number of woolly reasons – as in, on Friday the sheep were shorn and are currently infesting my lawn, eating that down before we all vanish in the spring growth. And most surprisingly the gaggle are sharing their territory without much fuss. I put that down to my having waited until the gosling …
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Gosling Stops don’t only stop Goslings
Something to which I can testify. After that dratted gosling squirmed under the front gate and was discovered wandering on the other side of the road – hastily retrieved – I put up a gosling stop. This has the same purpose as a cattle stop, i.e. to prevent cattle wandering, or as in this case, …
Sigh – Spam – the continuation…
appapprently taking my comments in September on the futility of receiving (much too much) spam in French to mean that I may speak other languages, I opened my blog this morning to discover I am now being fervently addressed in a spate of German. Dear Spammers. I don’t read German either, nor Chinese, Japanese, SerboCroatian, …
Gozzled.
well, as I put it, the geese have gozzled. One gosling, and only one, but that’s better than nothing and before Christmas its feathers should have started coming in and I’ll know what sex it is. (My geese are part Sebastopol and feather colour is sex-linked.) If it’s a boy I’ll have to find it …
Not so great Weather
Screaming gales on and off this past couple of weeks. No real damage, although I came out on Tuesday morning to find that the big door on the woodshed was wide open back against the shed’s side. Apparently the wind had managed to get under the edge of the door and rip the catch open. …
Moving into Summer
Why do I think that? because yesterday I had a helicoper hovering more-or-less overhead, and the farming sections of the newspapers are all warning about setting your tractor on fire. And those items aren’t as odd as they sound in combination. The helicoper is on rook patrol. The birds form huge rookeries and are a …
Even sillier Spam incoming.
And I notice that in the past couple of weeks I’ve been inundated by a slightly different spam type. This all in a frenzied spate of French. Since I speak – and read – no French it’s a complete waste of time sending it to me. It appears to come from a list of women’s …
A Bee in a Bonnet
I was in the kitchen with my house manager when there was a loud buzzing and we became aware that we had a companion – a large irked bumble bee. I grabbed for the bee-jar just as the bee vanished iunder the sideboard. My house manager took the jar from me, dropped to her knees …
Wow, Gales!
and they certainly were. Although they could have been worse, we didn’t lose power as half the South island did, and we had only 28mls – just over an inch- of rain, not the flooding others had. But it was a wild couple of days. I was watching the 6pm news on TV Wednesday when …
Seen On My Lawn
5 December 2013
One pit bull cavorting past and through the sheep, along with the dog of a chap visiting next door. Said chap observed my flock look up casually at the canine duo, and go back to dozing with no indication of worry. He was surprised. I wasn’t. My sheep haven’t been worked with a dog for …
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