What a Party!

After a very successful night at the Olympic opening ceremony my animals have had a lie-in. They performed perfectly without any signs of stage fright. I can take a little credit for that though because for the last four weeks I've had the opening ceremony tracks played constantly through speakers I installed in the hen hut, cow sheds and sheep pens.
They know every song off by heart!


They'll be catching the 2.30 cattle truck from Kings Cross and be back on the farm before it all sinks in. I cant wait to welcome them home. I'm sooo proud of them!

Fit as a Butcher's

Midnight Feast

A Fluffy tale

We've had fun down at the farm this week. The big clear up started after the rain storms.
We washed the cattle, hosed down the new pigs and used hair dryers on the sheep. They ended up resembling fluffed up balls of wool with their legs looking like knitting needles sticking out at the bottom! 
Angus's coat looked great and gave him admiring glances from Daisy and the other girls.
The unusual weather caused Henrietta to lay an 'eggstraordinary' three eggs in one night.
That left the other hens looking a bit worried. Still, it gave them something to cluck about. 
That reminds me...I haven't seen the fox around for a little while...

Ask him...no you ask him!

Star Grazing

Salad Days

At last, the wellies are off. I've packed away my sou'wester, removed the sand bags from my studio door and cleaned up after the wettest June on record in the UK.
In fact it's been so bad the animals have developed stilt legs to keep their tummies dry!


The extra long grass is fattening them up nicely for Christmas (a bit too much in some cases). Daisy and her girlfriends are still moooning over Angus, handsome beast that he is.


The Chickens are content and are growing in number as the foxes don't like the wet weather. We are expecting delivery of a new breed of piglets shortly. That should be fun.... 

The Diet Starts Tomorrow

Eggstraordinary!