Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo page all from Lynne. We have a few days of photographs left to put on the Photo page, but not as many as I had first thought.
THESE WERE ALL TAKEN IN THE GARDEN OF OUR HOLIDAY COTTAGE IN PEMBROKESHIRE 2 WEEKS AGO. LYNNE.
I ran out of petrol on the Quad Bike down the Valley yesterday afternoon. With no petrol and a CCTV camera pointing at it there was very little chance that anyone would ride away on it, so I didn’t bother to go and fetch it back until about half an hour before I fed the Badgers. I walked into the Valley for about 25 yard and startled a large Red Deer Stag in velvet that was no more than ten feet away feeding on cowslip by the Stream. To tell the truth I don’t know who startled who more, for if I had been zipped in I would have jumped out of my skin. It ran into the left hand side wood and as I walked past where it had entered, it was standing a way back watching me.
The hay was had dried so that it was able to be baled this afternoon. It looks as if the rain hasn’t spoilt it. I don’t mind a little rain on hay as it tend to make it a little course that the Horses tend to like more. As it is early hay it will have most of the grass seed still on the hay which then has very good feed quality. We always try to make seed hays, but the weather doesn’t always allow us to make it. Last year because of the heavy rain that we had the hay was made very late, so that all of the seed had fallen. It made well and the Horses and Sheep never wasted any at all as there was a good sweet smell to it, but we did use more.
Bliss and Misty’s passports arrived in the UK from France on Friday. I must admit I was concerned that they may have been lost in the post. The exportation and all relevant paper have been prepared and the Fillies passports were returned to France the same day. This time they have been sent back to France by recorded delivery. They should arrive by Tuesday. They will then get their racing names and should get their first race very soon after. Bliss will be called, It’s Me and Misty will be called Live the Moment. We had also had the name Gypsy reserved but it is not very well liked in France.