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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven sent in by Clive.

1/ Wild Buddleia growing in Sandford lane. Clive.

2/ Narrow boats in Sandford Lock, the deepest lock on the Thames. Clive.

3/ The Kings Arms Pub on the Thames at Sandford. Clive.

4/ Narrow boat going under the “Iron Bridge” at Kennington. Clive.

5/ Hinksey Lake, a mile outside Oxford was dug out to supply gravel when the railway was built, then used as a reservoir for the old water-works. Now just used for leisure. Clive.

At last after nearly two years this morning we managed to get Ewy captured in a stable to check her over and give her a pedicure. It was very easy, she went into the stable on her own. We had got Arnie and Breeze in for their morning feed. Ewy decided that she would follow Breeze but she stopped short of following her into the stable. Instead when we got Lady, Emmi and the two Foals in for their feed Ewy walked by their side to their stables. There are three stables in a row where Lady and Emmi are stabled, they are stabled either end with the middle stable empty but left open of a nighttime for Branston to use if it is raining. We usually close it when the Mares and Foal come in for their feed, this morning we forgot and as Lady and Emmi went to their stables with their Foals Ewy went into the middle stable. I quickly closed the door, and did she protest, kicking the floor and bleating out. We went back to the Farm House for a cup of coffee and to allow Ewy to settle before we handled her.

It was time for Ewys pedicure. Walking back to the stables we could still hear Ewy protesting and she didn’t look happy when we looked over the stable door. I was going to take a photograph of Ewy over the stable door for the Photo page, but decided that I would get one as she was having a pedicure. As we entered the stable Ewy was at the back still protesting. Without warning at full speed Ewy charged at the stable door that was showing a little light through the opened door of no more than a few inches, she pushed her way through with such force that she nearly knocked me off of my feet and through the door she went to freedom. There was no stopping her, somehow she managed to get through a gap in the fencing that none the other Ewes have managed.

It was never our intention not to let Ewy back with the Horses once we had checked her over. As far as Ewy is concerned she is a Horse. She grazes with the Horses, roams around the fields with them and eats out of the same bowl of food as Gypsy and Willow. The other Ewes and Lambs have been grazing in the Horse field for the past week or so. Ewy doesn’t want to socialize with them and Willow and Gypsy get quite annoyed and kick out to stop the Sheep other than Ewy from eating with them. I wasn’t best pleased when Ewy made her escape, there will be another day.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.

Aren’t these lovely. They flower right from late spring until the frosts. Elsie.

This was made out of slate and all sorts of other bits. It stands in the grounds of the Eden Project,Cornwall.Lindsay

Ponies taken last August. GJ

MORE PICS OF WSR, TWO ENGINES ABOUT TO LEAVE THE STATION. FROM MARIE AND JOHN.

Dolphin photos taken in scotland on the Murray Firth last year. Vicky, Derby.

Emmi is due to Foal on the 1st of March. I should think that would have been taken on a 365 day year, not a leap year, so her due day to Foal is today. Watching the monitor in or bedroom before I went to sleep, Emmi was turning her head toward her rear end, a sign that she may have been going to give birth. We put the alarm clock on for every three quarters of an hour just in case. It does tire us out waking so often through the night, but at least with a monitor I don’t have to go to the stables to check on her as we did before we used cameras. Imagine what it would have been like last year with Lady being a month overdue, if I had gone out to the stables every hour or so. I have done that a few years back. Angela some Horses do occasionally give birth in the day, but I haven’t been that lucky. It all goes back to when Horses were wild. It was safer to give birth in the early hours, after predators had finished hunting. Its a shame someone hadn’t told them that there was no such risk in a stable. I suppose if I was so inclined, I could tell you what sex Emmi’s foal is. Your unlucky I am not inclined to.

I am starting to wonder if my Sheep are in lamb, it could be that the Ram wasn’t fertile. I will need to check them over some time during the weekend. Being that the Ram was running with the Ewes all of the time, I would be surprised if they were barren this year. I could be wrong, but they all look large.

The Snowdrops have gone over and the Wild Primroses have shown themselves for the first time today. With the Trees and Hedging budding we are well on our way to Spring. This Autumn and Winter seems to have gone so fast with us being able to leave the Horses out in the fields until nearly Christmas.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

This swan hatched 11 eggs last spring but had lost 1 before i took this photo of her and her brood she became well known locally on the river Tone and was well fed by onlookers she had a large audience that included the local press and tv . The two house lizards photo was taken in Spain at our friends house, by hubby they were walking across the ceiling, shortly after he caught this snap they went into an embrace and fell to the floor!!!! usually just one has a walk round the ceiling and tops of the walls of an evening looking for insects. this was the first time two had been seen together. Marie.

Hello Mr Farmer, This is a picture of the Kingfisher that I see most days fishing on the riverbank, the little devil darted into the back of the bushes today. Normally he sits on the closer branches fishing. I