Oooooo Tumble Drier!

You would think that being on the worlds wettest farm we'd of splashed out on a drier before wouldn't you?  Instead we kind of fell into the Comet sale last night looking for a blender and ended up with Mark squashed in the front of Gretchen (the Dodge) practically hugging a tumble drier with no reverse, first or second gear.  

Today the comfort rats offered to test it out as while they weren't malodorous they were slightly grubby.  They were a little nervous but off they went in the camper van to go surfing.  Theodore got wipped out by a big wave ("I'm not waving, I'm drowning"!) resulting in  CPR followed with a soothing spell in the sauna.  

After a wee tipple in front of a roaring fire, they headed off back to bed, lighter, fluffier and fragrant.

Arrayan's New Girlfriends!

PetNanny Nativity Day!

Today I headed over to Carolines (aka PetNanny) for her nativity get together in aid of Pawz for Thought, as always an absolute hoot.  The rest of the photos are here - Petnanny Nativity.

Better sort of morning!

Anyone selling an ark?

Ah well it continues to drizzle a little here (ha ha!) so Wills and Stela are now in (Stela looked just thrilled to be sharing with her ginger stepbrother) and the rest of the herd have haylage bales out.  I had a wee bet with Mark that the herd wouldn't come charging over to the bales which I would of won if it hadn't been for "oh so helpful mule"!

As soon as the tractor started up she began to honk and charge around, "heeee heeee heee hawwww".  The rest of the herd went "what was that muley?".  I said "heeee heeee heeee hawwwwww - look he's going to feed us."  "Nah" the rest said, "there is grass floating in those other fields, I saw some just sail past and its only November, he's so not feeding us."  "heeeeee heeee hawwwww - I am going to the tractor."  Malambo said "I have your back muley, charge forward"... and with no respect for my wallet and ability to say "see I was right" the rest came too.

Cumberland Bird of Prey Centre

Peter has been away today flying all sorts of birds at the local bird of prey center for his birthday (Website is here - Birds Of Prey - not working for me at the moment but their details are available on google!)  They fair enjoyed themselves!!

Horse Juggling!!

Do you think I could market this as a board game?! All carefully colour coded ("Stallions" "broodmares" "useful but unemployed" "retired" "foals" and "youngsters") to be slotted into stables, barn or field for the winter as appropriate and bearing in mind who does not share (Ruby and Mable), who's bullet hard and who's not. Now I can see two things that would make my life a lot easier... A) Someone coming and buying the rest of the foal crop, allowing me to put the three Criollo's where they are or B) Selling Wills. If both A and B happened I just wouldn't know what to do with myself !!