After the debacle that was Titchy last year, I am pleased to announced that Dolly (formerly known as No-Name Lamb) had has the first Shetland lamb of the year unassisted!  Woo hoo!  Sadly, it is a boy, so I am now going to be more specific in my request to the universe -- pretty pretty please may I have a purebred Shetland GIRL next?!  :)

And following on from the indignities she had to suffer last year while we tried to teach her that she needs to let her lamb drink -- she seems to have got the hang of it this time round!  :)

She doesn't seem to have grasped why the other ewes go off into the corners to lamb though and so she's had her lamb right out in the middle of the field where all of last year's lambs (who are not in lamb themselves) are taking a keen interest!  :)

Will have better pics of lamb in a couple of days but even from this distance, I can see that he very much takes after his Daddy Raymond colour-wise...

In other news, spring continues to spring...  The plum tree has blossom on it this year, so fingers crossed we will get plums -- we haven't had any since the first year!

The bluebells are out now...

...and my favourites, the whitebells...  :)

The chicks are growing -- they are starting to get proper feathers on their wings now...

And here's another sunset because they've just been so gorgeous lately that I can't resist!