June sometime…….could be about the middle……..
How dare he!……. who said he could cuddle Sioux? I am Hiccup and I am in charge of this herd and I wasn’t asked, that’s just sneaky, we are going to have to have Words about this!
Now, before you say anything, I know it’s nearly two months since last I was here but we have been busy, lots going on as usual…….there’s never a dull moment on our little farm so lots of photies to show you so where shall we start?………..Oh I know, how about the trailer that fell over a while ago…………
Oops, trailer full of grass zooming (possibly a bit too fast) on the road around our commune dropped a wheel in the ditch and……..over you go!
there was a few tons of grass in there that had to be dug out by hand before they could pull the trailer back upright……..
did we offer to help clear up?………err, too busy laughing I’m afraid and anyway there were enough people there, look at all the cars stopped to give advise!……..I bet somebody got a bollocking!
So we got our annual haircuts a little later than first planned as our usual tondeurs Ian & Tom weren’t allowed over from uk……..something about spreading the disease of not speaking french or something, I’m not entirely sure I got that right but it sounded awfully complicated and Eve and Nigel spent lots of time trying to get an Ok for Ian to come over but kept being told ‘Non’……that was usually after they had first said ‘Oui, pas de problème’ then change their mind a couple of days later and I understand that there was a bit of a worry that we wouldn’t get trimmed until August as all the french shearers were already booked up but luckily Robin & Julian could fit us in and came in May.
They were very good with us, very gentle but they did have an odd way of doing the job……I shouldn’t laugh but some of our gang have some very odd haircuts now, bits missed, especially some of the suris, I’ll try and get some photies to show you.
I think Elvis here is winning this wrestling match…..as I say, they did have an odd way with us and as you can see we are a lot stronger than they are mostly especially when they are trying to be ‘gentle’ with us ………. ha ha,sometimes We won!!
” What you doing with my mum?”……… it’s little Woody wondering why his mum, Rohini is down there, he needed a cuddle after that……..
Now we are waiting for summer to come back again, it was here just before shearing as we were all getting a bit too hot in the sun with our big wooly coats on but now it’s disappeared and it’s been cool and showery for ages……… it does this every year, even though we are a month later with shearing it has still changed just afterwards but apparently summer will be back next week………that means too hot and loads of flies! we’ll see. Hay making has been done but before that it had been decided by…..oh I won’t say who but suffice to say ‘boys and their toys’, you know who I’m talking about huh?……that tractor ‘new blue’ needed an extra ‘toy’………..
Uh oh!…….. he’s taken it apart, oh my word it’ll never go back together again, NOooooooo,………..
Ok…….. maybe you can, but does it actually work, you know go up and down lifting things? ……. and by the way, how many bits did you have left over? and don’t say none because we’ve all seen your boxes of nuts,bolts,washers,screws,brackets,shafts,wheels et all that you term as ‘profit’ or ‘un-necessary weight’! …… well, not going to answer hmm?
………and another thing, how are you going to cope with all those levers and pipes?…..yes, you who struggles to type on a computer keyboard with one finger of one hand never mind trying to co-ordinate two hands steering and moving levers up & down whilst pressing feet on pedals at same time…….heaven forbid! ……this is going to be brilliant to watch!
As it is spring time, or rather it was a month or so ago…….. matings are still going on……….
Looks like a bit of an orgy going on here, old feller Ivor (grey) and Deeks (white) next door having a blast which causes the other ‘open’ girls to sit down in hope of getting a turn as well.
not the most organised way of running a mating session but as a bit of a party they all seemed to enjoy themselves and nobody un-intentionally got mated ….. Ivor’s no youngster these days and has his limits!
Three year old Kody was getting worked up watching and wanted to join in which is a good sign as they want him to cover a couple of us this year, it is time he started working now…… he looks fit doesn’t he girls? ….mmmm, athletic !
Ah ha…….I wondered if he’d show it working……. well, parked in a field with a hay bale anyway that’s a start!
And bales in the barn for us, that’s a nice feeling to know we’ve got the winter supply sorted and it’s wonderful hay this year, a near perfect mix of mild weather,sunshine and rain made for an early cut and baling all in the dry……yee ha, it smells fantastic.
And to finish today……. either shortass in the orange is really short or Miles stood next to him is a monster, I’ll leave that one with you folks, answers on a postcard please! ta ta.