Tuesday 31 January 2012 Yesterday I received a phone call to tell me my friend Mrs Ellis had passed away that morning. The girls were still here after their weekend home so they were upset, but they had to go home to Cheltenham due to commitments there. They both want to come home for the [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Sad News
Posted in friends on 31 January 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tweeting
Posted in Things that cause me amusement on 28 January 2012 | 2 Comments »
Saturday 28 January 2012 Don’t ask me why, but yesterday I thought I might like to join Twitter, having never shown any interest in it before. So I joined. Now what do I do? I’ve looked at the home page trying to work out …. what? I don’t even really know what Twitter is! Today [...]
That Darn Cat!
Posted in cats, crafts, home on 27 January 2012 | 4 Comments »
Friday 27 January 2012 On Wednesday evening I ‘hosted’ a craft evening at the house. The group has been meeting for a long time in a nearby village hall, but over the past year the numbers have been dropping as so often happens with these sorts of things and the lady who runs the group [...]
Stuff
Posted in family, friends, home on 26 January 2012 | 2 Comments »
Thursday 26 January 2012 On Saturday our eldest daughter Alex had a birthday and was originally scheduled to be working, but during the previous week she covered for the manager and various assistants in the Bristol branch of Cath Kidston so was given the entire weekend off. In collaboration with Steph we arranged a birthday [...]
A Cat-Shaped Hole
Posted in cats, family, farm, garden, home on 17 January 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday 17 January 2012 As you know we have quite a few cats around the farm, mainly for their mouse/rat-killing capabilities although at the moment they’re all, even the one the Cats’ Protection League labelled as ‘totally feral and untamable’, sculking in the kitchen somewhere in the vicinity of the Aga. Well, it is cold [...]
Another Alexandra?
Posted in farm, home on 15 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday 15 January 2012 Since the beginning of the year we’ve had six calves born: the two I mentioned in my previous post followed by three bull calves then another heifer this morning. Two of the bull calves were born to Alexandras and the calf this morning is the daughter of the little Alexandra who [...]
Twofer
Posted in farm, Freecycle on 10 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
Tuesday 10 January 2012 This is our baby Alexandra, born on the first day of the year. When I checked the records we had an Alexandra born on the first day of last year too, followed by another on the 18th – the red one. We had another heifer born this morning out of a [...]
A Good Start – Or Is it?
Posted in farm, home on 2 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Monday 2 January 2012 Dan took New Year’s Day and today off so it’s been just Gordon and I. Yesterday was warm and I didn’t mind milking at all, but today there was a bit of a bite in the air and my fingers were numb by the end of it. Yesterday morning our first [...]
2011 in review – and a Happy New Year!
Posted in home on 1 January 2012 | 1 Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
