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Last night the website was hit by a Hacker The…

Last night the website was hit by a Hacker. The was no risk to those viewing the webcams or the website. I cannot for the life of me understand how these pond life get satisfaction from spoiling other peoples pleasure.

No doubt the pond life will attempt to hack into our system again. Until we find how it is getting in the only way that we will be able to stop it is to have a log in system where you need to register to make an entry on the Forum. I am sure that you wont want that, just as I don’t want to have to accept your registration as it will cause me additional work and cost that I do not want.

You would not want to know what the cost of keeping this website going, let alone having to pay for it, so I am not best pleased with any criticism that is made of any type or for any reason.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

See what happens if you sleep around! Elsie.

I GOT STOPPED FOR SPEEDING YESTERDAY.
I THOUGHT I COULD TALK MY WAY OUT OF IT UNTIL THE OFFICER LOOKED AT MY DOG IN THE BACK SEAT. Elsie.

These are pics of Garson Farm where i go for all my produce and go to Pick your own in the summer and an xmas tree display there. Sarah.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Only one day of photographs left.

What can you make of this tree ladies, from my cousins collection. Sue.

These photos are just some of the owls at the Rutland Falconry and Owl Centre. Merrilyn.

This morning I heard the the Goose that had woken us for the past few morning as I was feeding the Horses. When I checked the webcam there was one that I managed to get on the webcam. It was on the Lake for half an hour. I wondered if it may have been the Goose that lost he Goslings and Gander earlier in the year. For a change for as well as the Goose there were a pair of little Grebe and a few Mallard.

I spoke to Peter from the Lock this afternoon. On the 3rd or 4th of January there is going to be a talk at the Lock on the Wild Cat and we are going to broadcast it live on Wildlife TV. It will be a first for us. Although the webcams are all real-time live they all concentrate on on Animals and Birds. Never on humans. Peter is sending me a copy of the poster advertising the talk. I will put it on the Photo Page when I receive it. Peter or myself will keep you up to date with all the information.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Only one day of photographs left.

What can you make of this tree ladies, from my cousins collection. Sue.

These photos are just some of the owls at the Rutland Falconry and Owl Centre. Merrilyn.

This morning I heard the the Goose that had woken us for the past few morning as I was feeding the Horses. When I checked the webam there was one that I managed to get on the webcam. It was on the Lake for half an hour. I wondered if it may have been the Female that lost he Goslings and

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Grebe mallard goose…

Grebe, mallard, goose

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

We dont have enough photographs for tomorrows Photo Page.

These are all taken at the German Fair in hyde park london. Sarah.

For the past few mornings just before our alarm clock has gone off to wake us we have been woken by Geese or a Goose leaving the Lake. We haven’t seen one on the Lake during in the day so we can only assume that it or they landed on the lake during the night or early in the morning.

We haven’t managed to find the time to do the fencing that we had hoped to do to try to protect any Geese or Swans that may decide to nest on the Lake next year, although there is in place the electric fencing to stop the Otter from eating our fence. That fencing is three strands of wire about four eight and a foot above the ground. It will stop the Otter but little else. We are though able to put more strands of wire on the posts as the posts are about three foot high. I should think that three more strands of wire on the post about every eight inches will stop a Fox or Badger from getting the Geese. Although the electric fence is only 12 volt the one that we are using around the Lake is mains powered so the 12 volts is constant and throws out quite a shock that I found out to my cost. I was showing an erosion expert who I was seeking advice from around the Lake. Some how, don’t ask me how or why, I put my foot in-cased in a heavy boot through two of the strands of wire. One shock was bad enough but I finished getting four as I was unable to get my booted foot out from between the two wires. Electric fences are not constantly live, they pulse every second or so. The shock that I got will definitely keep Foxes, Badgers and Otters from the Lake.

Emmi and Lady have been calling out a lot less for today and we have only heard Socks and Solo call back a couple of times. Hopefully the weaning process will not be to stressful for them.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.

Autumn trees at Rufford Country Park.

A Swan on the lookout for Bread.

Autumn in the woods at Rufford country Park.

Not an exotic location but I woke up to the most beautiful Sunrise.

And then a few days later a lovely Sunset. From Judy.

We weaned Socks and Solo from Emmi and Lady today. Not something we like doing and we do try to leave it for as long as we can. But unfortunately the day has to come. For the past few days I had noticed Emmi trying to stop Socks from suckling by lifting her hind leg to push him away. When Mares start to do that there is always a chance that the Foal will get a kick.

We normally stable both the Mares and the Foals when we wean. This year we have only stabled the Foals, letting the Mares back out into the Horse Field. The Mares didn’t realise the Foals had not followed them to the Field until a good quarter of an hour after. It will take a few days for both the Mares and Foals to get through the ordeal, In that time they will be calling to each other throughout. I will put the two Foals on the webcams so that you can see them.

The Badgers are not leaving the Sett for the feed we leave out as much as normal. It is cold when the Sun goes down so they are only venturing out when they need to and because they know that there is food for them without having to venture far from the warmth of their home.

If it is the Fountain in the middle of Lake Geneva Mary was asking about. No it wasn’t working. This trip was the latest in the year that I have visited Geneva, it has always been working on other visits.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.

DEER IN CHATSWORTH DERBYSHIRE. LYNNE.

CHATSWORTH DERBYSHIRE. LYNNE.

CURIOUS STAG IN CHATSWORTH. LYNNE.

TREE IN CLUMBER PARK. LYNNE.

PEAK DISTRICT. LYNNE.

We have been exceptionally busy this week, so much so that there has been no time to do a Diary or upload the Photo page.

On Tuesday I had to go to Geneva. Being that I don’t fly the journey was by train, leaving Taunton at 10.30am Tuesday morning, arriving back to Taunton at midnight on Wednesday. The journey to Geneva from Paris is all in the dark so it would not be the most exciting of journeys. The day time return is completely the opposite, a journey that I have done on numerous occasions and never tire of. The train passes through mountains and mountain villages, by the side of raging rivers and beautiful countryside. There was quite a lot of snow on the mountains and around the villages. Fortunately there was no snow in Geneva. I had a two hour wait wait for my train in Geneva and spent a good hour sitting by Lake Geneva that is surrounded by mountains that had a little covering of snow.

The only time that I get to read a book is when I travel by train. At St Pancras Station I picked up a Jeffry Archer book, A Prisoner of Birth. Some how I managed to read the 616 pages finishing the book five minutes before. I arrived back to Taunton, so I didn’t notice the time that the journey had taken. By coincidence the books centred around the East End of London and Geneva.

With the Sheep being free range at the moment there has been a lot of contact between them and Ewy. We had thought that she would not bother with the Sheep being that she had been very close to the Horses, but over the past couple of days Ewy has been getting very close to the other Sheep. This evening Ewy after joining in feed time with Willow and Gypsy we noticed that she was grazing in the midst of the Sheep. We are hoping to house the Sheep in the Barn early next week. It will be interesting to see if Ewy comes in with them.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.

Thornton eating bird seed outside of the cottage. Vicky.

Breeze and her friend grooming each other. Vicky.

Thornton with his head over the stable door of the cottage after some ginger nuts. Vicky.

Two more photos from my cousins collection I have.

Thornton is none the worse for yesterdays ordeal. Pity that I could not say that about the back seat of my car. There are perfect foot prints of Thornton feet. If the Police were looking for a Sheep culprit he would be well of banged to rights.

As you may have seen we had our driveway hedges cut back today. It will make the Reindeer’s Field easier to see and hopefully for you to be able to see more of the Reindeer. As I was not about whilst it was being cut the contractor was unable to go into the Field to make a better job of it. He will be returning in the next week to finish off the job.

At 6.37pm whilst writing the Diary I caught a glimpse of an Owl swoop down on what I can only think was a Rat. It was over so quick if I had blinked I would have missed it. As you know one of my biggest fears are Rats. As much as I would want to poison them, I cant in case an Owl catches a poisoned Rat for it would kill the Owls. When you do see the Rat being taken by an Owl it makes up for having to suffer seeing the Rats. With a bit of luck the Owl will return. We purposely do not do any work in the Badger Field. One reason is that if any heavy vehicles go over the Badger sett it is liable to go into the hole causing damage to the vehicles or injury to the operator.

We will be unable to do a Diary of renew the Photo Page until Thursday as essential work on data base needs doing.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

A few photos of places in Nottingham city.

The Oldest Pub In England. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem 1189AD.

Another view of Ye olde Trip Pub. It’s cellars are built into the sandstone cliffs at the back.

The rather ‘Chunky’ Robin Hood statue that Julia commented about.

Nottingham Castle entrance.

Sandstone caves. from Judy

As there was little to write about I was not going to do a Diary entry tonight. Then at about 4.50pm just before I was to go to feed the Badgers there was a light knock at the Farm House door. On opening the door in ran a panicking rat type dog with a large man in a position to follow it. Tass thought it was great and but for me shouting at her the rat type dog could well have been shaken as Dogs do when they catch rats, leaving it dead. This part was finished as quickly as it started with the dog running towards the man who was able to scoop it up before Tass had.

I screamed as loud as I could at the man what the **** do you think you are doing. Your Sheep have ran up the drive he replied and I am knocking to let you know. I knew that it was not the Sheep that had run up the drive, I knew that they were in the Field, it could only have been Thornton who had been laying in the Farm House Porch only a short time before. He had obviously been chased by the rat type dog who had not been on a lead on the footpath that goes through the Farm. The man had put the rat type dog on the ground, to I can only assume to belatedly put a lead on the dog, unfortunately he got loose and also ran down the drive with the man in hot pursuit being followed by my ranting and raving about the dog not being on a lead, and that if I had got to my gun before he had put a lead on the dog I would shoot it for Sheep worrying. That would have been a bit difficult as I don’t own a gun. The speed that the man was chasing after the dog he may well have believed it.

After I had fed the Badgers I came in to do the Photo Page. After 10 minutes or so I realised that I had not seen Thornton and that I needed to make sure that he was alright. I looked all around the places where Thornton would hang out and found no sign of him. I checked the stream to make sure that he had not been chased into it. I had run out of all of the places where he may have gone, but there was still no sign of him. I could only think that Thornton had been in front of the man and the rat type dog and had kept on running believing he was being chased either in the direction of the footpath or down the Drive. What ever I needed to go down the Drive. As the new electric gates would have stopped Thornton from getting out of the Farm, if he wasn’t there I would need to go to the end of the footpath that went through Fields, that were getting on for a mile away.

I passed through the electric gates at the end of the Drive that close automatically unless the remote control is pushed on exiting. I fumbled in the dark for the remote that I had put back into its place to close the gates in case Thornton was following behind me, when suddenly his head appeared behind the closed gate in our Field opposite the end of our drive. As I got out of the car Thornton started to call out to me, being behind the closed gate was making him panic so I needed to hold him in case he decided to run. There was only one action I could take and that was to put him in the back of the car to get him back down the Drive to the farm where he knows. I haven’t looked to see what state the back of the car is in. If I hadn’t fumbled for the electric gate remote control I would not have seen Thornton. I would never had guessed that he would have been in that Field behind a closed gate. The man or someone must have put him there. If I had not found him, even if he knew the Drive led to the Farm, he could not have got through the gate and he may well have wandered off along the lanes to be lost or run over.

At both ends of the footpath that passes through Denbury, signs are displayed telling that dogs should be on leads and under control. Idiots who ignore these notices cause injuries to Farm and Wild Animals. We had two of our Sheep killed by a dog a couple of years back. Unfortunately people and their dogs are rarely caught. Farmer do have a right to shoot dogs that worry animals.