Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Solitude

One of the things I love most about living here is the peace & quiet.  Went for a walk early this morning and didn't see any people -- just the birds and the fence posts!



In chicken related news, here's a better picture of the chicks:


The Mummy hen is VERY protective of them, and directly after I took that picture (achieved only by physically removing her from them), she started gathering them under her again...


Nearly all back under her now -- look at all the little legs underneath the hen!  :)

Monday, 28 March 2022

BREAKING NEWS!

UPDATE:  ALL FIVE EGGS HATCHED!  Here's a video Danny took:


FIRST CHICK PIC!!!  See that teeny little beak on that little black chick???!  So excited! 

Hen has been sitting on five eggs; we will check under her properly later but don't want to disturb her just yet.  

FIRST ANIMALS BORN TO US AT SPARROWHALL!!!


 

Monday, 21 March 2022

Stove

A few photos from our walk on the beach just south of Stove this morning:

We think this is a flapper skate egg case -- an endangered species mainly found round here!




Monday, 7 March 2022

Coming out of Hibernation...

We are slowly coming out of our enforced hibernation from the wind.  We've only had about four days in the last month and a half where the weather was calm enough to do anything outside -- until this weekend when we had FOUR glorious days of dry, sunny, calm weather!  

We've made some more progress with the fencing -- nearly done with the first field...


Whilst working on the fencing, we had from one side the inquisitive cows (except for the grumpy bugger off in the distance who couldn't be bothered...):


And on the other side, little Freya, who explores further and further each day...


Random things are starting to come up -- things that I knew were there, like these chives that Jo gave me in what seems like another lifetime when we called in to see her not far off this time last year when we were on our way up to Llyn Brianne to go camping to get away from people...


...and things that I didn't know were there, and are just randomly popping up in the midst of weeds and rubbish!



The polytunnel is also coming along nicely -- hopefully I'll be able to start planting things in there soon!