Wednesday 28 January 2009
I didn’t realise when I took photos of the deer that the male was, in fact, the one Gordon calls Tripod. If you look closely you can see he’s missing half a back leg (his right leg). Gordon and our neighbour Jim were talking and Jim told him that one of the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Update
Posted in family, friends, home on 28 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Deer, Deer
Posted in home on 23 January 2009 | 4 Comments »
Friday 23 January 2009
Every time I went outside yesterday there was a pair of deer in the field next to the house, but they were too far away to photograph. Today I went shopping and when I came home they were settled beside the road. I stopped the car, found my camera, turned down the [...]
Happy Birthday to Alex
Posted in family, friends, home, shopping on 21 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Today I was woken by the sound of my phone ringing: it was Alex who contacted me so I could wish her Happy Birthday. (Well, she gets free calls for goodness sake!) She’s reached the grand old age of twenty and feels that a part of her life is over. I keep [...]
Misty Mornings
Posted in family, farm, friends, home on 18 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sunday 18 January 2009
This is a favourite view of mine, just outside our front door to the left of the house. At one time our nearest neighbours, they with the perpetual bonfire, wanted to buy this field from us to expand their small patch of land and give their animals more room. We were tempted [...]
More Sage Advice
Posted in Things that cause me amusement, home on 12 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday 12 January 2009
Here’s some more sound advice from my book:
“Importance of Nice Neighbours – Before taking a house, especially on lease or long agreement, it is very necessary to know something about the residents in the vicinity; for if the world is small, it is so only for those with money and leisure to [...]
The Staffing Problem
Posted in Things that cause me amusement, home on 11 January 2009 | 8 Comments »
Sunday 11 January 2009
My blog-writing creative muse seems to have left around the same time as the Christmas decorations and I haven’t found myself very inspired. The cold weather doesn’t help as I huddle inside to keep warm and lack motivation in all areas. I have, however, been reading a book left behind by a [...]
Ah-ha! Progress
Posted in home on 7 January 2009 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday 7 January 2009
The computer and I have been engaged in a get-to-know-each-other session for most of the day, partly because in the week or so it took me to back everything up from the old one (and Christmas, of course), the invoices, receipts and other matters that need to be dealt with have piled [...]
Arrivals
Posted in farm, home, photography on 6 January 2009 | 4 Comments »
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Things have started to arrive this week. Not my fridge yet, but perhaps that’s just as well since I’m not ready for it, in as much as I haven’t cleaned out the old one so there’s nowhere to put it.
We were expecting and ready for the forager which arrived this morning. I [...]
In Preparation
Posted in family, home, shopping on 3 January 2009 | 5 Comments »
Saturday 3 January 2009
So far the New Year seems to have been tiptoeing around me. I’ve hardly known it’s there. It hasn’t done anything to bring itself to my attention and that’s fine by me. I’m not sure what I was expecting really but certainly not this constantly freezing weather. I milked on Wednesday, Thursday [...]
