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The weather is being kind to us, if it stays like it is for another three days we will be well on our way to making our hay for the winter. There is no art or cleaver way to make good hay. All you need is the right machinery and hot dry weather, and even […]
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We managed to mow the grass to make the hay today. the weather forecast for the next week or so doesn’t look to bad, so with a bit of luck we should be able to make some sort of hay or haylage. I went to the Barn Owl Trust this afternoon as the contractor was […]
As much as I do not like taking chances with the making of our hay, I don’t think that this year I have much of a choice. The forecast was rain today, but it has stayed dry. It has been dry since last Thursday afternoon, if the weather forecast hadn’t said that we would have […]
It is good news that the source of the foot and mouth outbreak seems to have been found. Of course no one is prepared to accept the blame, it is always not me. We will have to wait and see what damage has been done. What is really unbelievable is that a Government Laboratory is […]
It seems that I am going to be stuck with the rest of the Sheep for a bit longer that I thought. The intention was to take the Portland Sheep to a special Rare Breeds Sale in our local Livestock Market next Saturday. The outbreak of foot and mouth disease has put a stop to […]
The network connection from the farmhouse to the telescope observatory is turning out to be a bigger problem than I initially thought it would be. I have been trying to get it going for a time last night, and on and off today. It looks very much like I will have to run a new […]
For a few days the Diary is going to be very short as I am trying to get the Internet connection working properly from the telescope observatory back to the farmhouse. At the moment it is very intermittent and is not allowing me to control the telescope remotely. As the farm house is at least […]
For the past two days I have seen the Kingfisher dive off of the branch to catch a Fish. On one of the occasions it landed back on the branch with a fish in its beak. I tried to get a close up of it, unfortunately it was far to fast and was gone quicker […]
When we came down this morning we found that Jade our fourteen year old Springer Spaniel had died in the night. We had intended to take her to the Veterinary this morning, half expecting to have had to put her to sleep. We nearly decided to take her to the Veterinary last night, but the […]