Sherafeys accident has sparked a furious burst of horse facility improving, and the stables are taking shape (above) – not a terribly eco friendly design but there are a lot of blocks around and we need to get the stables built asap. I’m trying to use as...
Sometimes the events that test you just come out of the blue, from the left field, from the place that you least expected. Today we had one of those. Little Sherafey the horse has been on her own since poor Mabel died a month ago, and to be honest her field looks...
Well, this renovation / smallholding caper is certainly one of extremes. I began this week by exploring the woods opposite our land, walking over Lackan Bog, which is an amazing area of peat bog that has been colonised by birch woodland. Totally peaceful, and teeming...
Do you know this sheep? Or at least what breed she might be? She looked at us with a very enquiring air yesterday as we passed her by at the Balmoral Show, so we stopped for a chat. Balmoral was fascinating, and we could have spent days wandering round. These chaps...
Yesterday I lost an old friend, and had to make one of those decisions that you just don’t want to have to make. I feel very strongly that when you take on responsibility for an animal, then that responsibility lasts a lifetime. Poor Oakley wasn’t blessed...
Finally they have arrived – our four hens have taken up residence. We have an Ancona (pictured above left); a Lavender Araucana (above right); a Black Araucana (below) and last but not least, a rather marvellous Welsummer. They have had a fairly eventful 24...
