Now they're over, life returns back to normal (or as normal as can be on our farm!)
Our new residents are six white hens, who are not laying yet as they're not quite old enough. But they've been set free from their pen by daughter Charlotte! Now they roam around my garden, the neighbours gardens, Mother-in-Laws garden, the hedges along the lanes and anywhere else they can escape too. I've warned the village shop and village pub, if they see six hens strutting there way along High Street, call me! Although when it rains, they are all safely gathered in the hen house sheltering, not daft are they?We also had another visitor last week, of the human kind. Ursula Stricker from Switzerland stayed with us as an IFYE exchange student. We were her last family of six, during her stay in the UK. Many, many moons ago, I was an IFYE exchange student and went to USA for six months where I was hosted by 7 families!!! It all brought back many happy memories. Ursula spoke fabulous English and is studying to be a primary school teacher! Charlotte and Harry have been invited back to Switzerland for some skiing too, as Ursula is a ski instructor especially to children...... that will suit Harry then!
As for the farm, more cows have calved and one even had twins. Last Sat, Mark asked Harry, me and his brother Simon to fetch a cow and newborn calf in from the field. By the time we got there, she'd had another calf. We put the calves in the quad bike trailer and as long as the mother cow sees them, she will follow the trailer all the way home! Easy peezy!
