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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.....
POSTED: 11/10/2009 18:44:00
Tagging sheep
Lewis helped Bez tag around 300 lambs ready for selling at the Bakewell store sale on the last Wednesday of September. Each lamb has an ear tag put in with our flock number on one side and their individual number on the other side, for traceability. From the 1st Jan.we will need to electronically tag.....
POSTED: 13/09/2009 15:26:00
Kelso
On Thursday Bez and I travelled up to the Scottish Borders ready for the Kelso Ram Sale on Friday. It is held on the 2nd Friday September every year and most years we go up and buy a few new tups.
This year we stayed in a B&B in Jedburgh, a small town about 30 minutes from Kelso......
POSTED: 01/09/2009 19:42:00
Our new cat
This is Leo, a RSPCA rescue cat with Amy. A couple of months ago Leo broke his pelvis in a car accident but is now luckily fully recovered.
Early this morning Amy, Hannah and I
made a visit to the pet shop in Buxton to purchase a very smart house for Leo (although he seems to prefer.....
POSTED: 01/08/2009 19:04:00
Shearing
Yesterday the shearing gang came. Stephen Wainwright is from a large National Trust farm in Edale and he is our main shearing man and he usually brings one or two helpers with him. Yesterday he brought Tom and Dave. Between them they sheared over 500 ewes.
Amy my 10 year old daughter helped.....
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