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POSTED: 08/06/2010 12:22:00
Lambing
Lambing is now over (well 3 sheep left, so nearly over). The lambs in the picture are some of the cade (orphan) lambs that we have this year. We have a total of 18 that we are now feeding 3 times a day, the older ones are approaching 6 weeks old so will be weaned off the milk feeds soon and will be fed.....
POSTED: 10/05/2010 18:34:00
goose with goslings
This goose hatched a couple of goslings herself and we fostered a couple onto her that we had hatched in the incubator. You can see a gander in the background standing guard over her, which is rather sweet. It is a few weeks since I took this photo and she has now joined the main gaggle of geese with.....
POSTED: 18/03/2010 16:32:00
walling around the wood
Over the last few weeks we have had a couple of dry stone wallers building up the very delapitated wall around the small wood next to the farnhouse. It is a very traditional skill and there aren't that many people able to do it. The weather has been very hard for them through January and February but.....
POSTED: 18/03/2010 15:49:00
dog sledding
Are we mad!! In February we left a snowy Buxton for an even snowier Sweden. We stayed in a picteresque log cabin in Bracke and one day we travelled 2 hours north to go dog sledding. The owner of the Huskies drove one sled and Bez drove the other. He took us through a forest and over a frozen lake and.....
POSTED: 22/01/2010 14:30:00
The chickens
At the moment we have 19 chickens and 2 cockerels. During the recent snow they haven't wanted to come out of their house so Ive been carrying water and feeding them their corn in their house. Most mornings I take vegetarian scraps down to them, things like left over porridge, cake, bread, which.....
POSTED: 03/01/2010 11:24:00
snow
This is the view from our front door today. We have had snow for quite a few days now, since before Christmas Day and yesterday it came down a lot of snow. Where the wind has blown the snow into drifts it is really deep, up to 6ft deep in places.The only way to get about is either the Landrover or tractor......
POSTED: 01/12/2009 19:31:00
Our New Aga
On Friday at 8.30am two men came with our Aga and spent the next 6 hours assembling the 500 parts. As you can see we have chosen a red or claret one which I thought looked nice and welcoming. It replaces our very, very old 'Cleopatra' that nobody else seems to have heard of!
Once I've had a bit.....
POSTED: 11/11/2009 13:31:00
Looking for bombs!
Throughout October we have had several contractors from the M.O.D looking for bombs on some of our fields.
First of all they scanned the fields with a large metal detector and then sent in a large digger to start their search for discarded bombs.
They found one very large mortar from the.....
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