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Vegging out
Is it possible that my lack of bloggery could be down to spending too much time eating instead? An afternoon spent at the twice yearly local food fair saw us come home with a haul of the usual culinary essentials – chocolate buttons, chilli jam, smoked cheese – and refreshed our enthusiasm for our own [...]
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Tags: food, garden, grow your own, knitting, the big knit
…and relax
It feels like we’re turning a corner here. Things got a bit hairy for a while with Pepper & George’s myxi – who are thankfully healing up nicely – and distinctly hairless with Dixie. Our little old lady of the bunch had surgery for a hernia in her belly, and while we all held our [...]
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Tags: birthday, rabbits, tortoises
Fowl time
It took us a few weeks, but after hunting about on the net and avoiding some strangely cold-hearted locals*, we tracked down our new friends. Being left with a rather small flock (hmm, collective term for chickens..?) of 3 with Tairrie’s departure back in May, the time had come to introduce some fresh feathered friends [...]
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Tags: chickens, Pets
Suffering for my art
It seems I may have tapped my impatient toes too much. They may look innocent and sweet in all their pink flowery girliness, but those little grey shoes are capable of crippling someone in an afternoon. Just a short wander along the seafront was all it took for raw, painful (so painful!) blisters to crop [...]
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Tags: art, gift, Rob Ryan, shoes
Going one better
So I was just minding my own business, going through the usual morning routine: kettle on, chickens out, bunnies fed, picking through the weeds to get Pie his leafy breakfast. And there it was, staring me in the face – one little 4-leaf clover.
I have to admit, Pie probably wasn’t very impressed that I went [...]
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Tags: garden, lucky clover
Blame it on the button
It seems that at the moment, our household’s destiny is to keep Baytril manufacturers in business. Dolly will be on antibiotics for a month; apparently at least one of the pets in the garden has to be… Although she’s not yet quite back to normal, I’m tentatively hopeful that she’ll make a full recovery. It’s [...]
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Tags: bag, chickens
Chocolate -2 days and counting
It’s nice to have a couple of peaceful days after the somewhat stressful events in recent weeks. Pie seems to be doing well now; his daily routine involves warm baths and plenty of basking under the sun heat lamp and UV tube, with spells outside if the weather’s up to scratch. He’s very happy romping [...]
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Tags: gadget, home, iPhone, rainbow, shop, tortoises
Warm fuzzies
Two good things this month brings are flowers and pancakes; really, what more do you need!? A huge bouquet was sheepishly carried in to the house by my hubby on the friday evening before Valentine’s day, and the flowers are still going strong now. They are thirsty little blossoms, but very pretty – he chose [...]
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Tags: diy, flowers, home, pancakes, tortoises, tv, Valentine's day
Dust bunnies
Another month, another cold spell. Trying to beat the weather at its own game, I decided to clean out Pepper & George’s house this afternoon before the predicted snow fell. The weather won; but despite being barely able to feel my fingers, I managed to get a few quick snaps of the bunnies and hens [...]
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Tags: diy, home, rabbits, tv, weather
From one extreme to another
It got colder; after the lightest sprinkling of snow – the first of the year already – it dropped to -7.7 degrees Centigrade. But any thunder has been stolen by other parts of the country, who trounced us with -11 and then some. Today it managed to stay above freezing in daylight hours, and [...]
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Tags: Travel, weather
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