Thursday 2 June 2011 Stephanie is home for a long weekend in anticipation of helping us with the silage-making. She’s pretty good with a tractor and trailer and copes well with the monotony of driving backwards and forwards from the field to the silage-pit for ten hours at a time. Alex has a full-time job [...]
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Again? Really?
Posted in family, farm, The Black List on 2 June 2011 | 1 Comment »
Stitches Out
Posted in farm, friends, home, The Black List on 6 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday 5 December 2010 Alistair the vet told Gordon he could take Milly’s stitches out last Tuesday following her caesarian. Of course we were going to Alex’s graduation ceremony then so it didn’t get done. Since Tuesday Gordon’s been chasing her around with a knife and a pair of pliers to hold the knots, but [...]
Why So Damn Complicated?
Posted in The Black List, Things that cause me amusement on 9 November 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday 9 November 2010 Opening my post this morning I came across a statement for a credit card. It said I had a late payment fee of £12, which confused me slightly for a while since I don’t remember NOT paying it. Then I remembered why. The damn thing is set up on direct debit. [...]
The Plot Thickens
Posted in farm, home, The Black List on 14 April 2010 | 5 Comments »
Wednesday 14 April 2010 On Monday morning we took the dry cows (those waiting to calve) up the road to the canal banks that we rent from the Environment Agency. They’ll stay there until they give birth and will then be walked back to the farm with their calf. In the meantime, Gordon goes to [...]
Trouble All Round
Posted in home, The Black List, Things that cause me amusement on 3 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday 3 July 2009 Since I bought my new computer in January I have, on the whole, been quite satisfied with Vista and its over-protectiveness in a lazy, can’t-be-bothered-to-make-the-effort kind of way. I’ve reached the stage with my computer where I just want to turn it on and watch everything run smoothly. No longer am [...]
Student Finance
Posted in family, home, The Black List on 20 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
Monday 20 April 2009 Alex is in the final stages of reapplying for finances to cover the cost of university next year and we received a letter telling us that Student Finance has a new look! It’s now possible to apply online and to quote the letter ‘you’ll find it much simpler to support them’. [...]
Hitting the Ground Running
Posted in Eating Out, farm, home, The Black List on 28 November 2008 | 3 Comments »
Friday 28 November 2008 Yesterday we all hit the ground running. Milking, the funeral of Daniel’s paternal grandmother in Bridgwater, the unexpected and very sad death of Stephanie’s cat Willow (due to an unknown tumour as it turns out), a doctor’s appointment that should have taken ten minutes but kept us hanging around for forty-five [...]
Someone is watching
Posted in family, farm, home, The Black List on 8 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
Whilst washing down the parlour this morning following the milking and thinking, as I tend to do when there’s nothing else going on in my brain, I decided that George Orwell’s Newspeak had definitely arrived. I particularly like words and am slightly obsessive about grammar, punctuation and the correct use of both as I’m sure my [...]
I’m thinking of starting a rumour
Posted in family, farm, friends, home, photography, The Black List on 3 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If we walk up the road for a minute or two this is our view, at least in one direction. If you peer deeply into this photo you can see Glastonbury Tor, but you really do have to peer. We love living here; it’s peaceful and calm if you don’t count the constant hum from [...]
Hey – thanks then!
Posted in farm, The Black List on 2 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
We turned some cows up the road this morning and on the way back we passed these plastic sacks. They’ve been leaning against our fence all winter. Bearing in mind we’re off the beaten track, imagine our surprise when we realised they were full of chicken poop. Someone had obviously driven out (as they’re too [...]
