We are all very bored with the snow and the cold now. Red’s cock-a-doodle-doo is hoarse. The doodle-doo bit is almost missing. He sounds a bit pathetic – so I’m giving him a special vitamin tonic in his water to try and help. Vera – the other cockerel has taken this opportunity to make fun [...]
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By Dog Drama
Quiet Easter. Not. On Saturday afternoon I decided to put in an hour’s work in the veg patch. The dogs came with me. While I was digging a trench to plant my potatoes, Dottie went off and found a stick and came back to sit and wait patiently for me to throw it for her. [...]
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Rabbit Update
Lucy - the rabbit in isolation since Saturday seems to be doing well. Eating and drinking again and grumpy at being in a small hutch indoors rather than in its run. So that’s a good sign. The baby wild rabbit in the hay shed fared less well. Despite rescuing it from Dottie the curious (but [...]
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Spring?
Well if Christopher is taking a break from talking about the weather – I will talk about it instead. Today was the first springlike Sunday we’ve had – and much appreciated it was. We spent the whole day outside. I had my usual animal mucking out duties to perform and the rabbits which have been housed in [...]
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Cakes
Best friend Lisa stayed with me this weekend while Christopher went to Norfolk to visit his parents. Best friend Lisa came to help with a very specific activity – cake making. We weren’t just making any cake, we were experimenting in order to find the perfect cake recipe that we will use for Christopher’s 60th [...]
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This is the story of a rural life, lived by Sarah and Christopher on their 40 acre Wealden farm, near Rye, which they share with assorted animals, wild flowers, trees, an eclectic array of locals and the odd visitor who thinks it's an idyll. Sometimes it is.
