With a newer Land Rover Defender gracing the croft, it’s time for Harry the Dirty Dog to find himself a new owner to cosset and cherish his old bones. Harry is a 1990 Land Rover Defender 110 200 TDi County Station Wagon with 127,000 miles on the clock. We bought Harry in July 2005, bringing him [...]
Read moreAnd if I don’t have a mobile?
The boys’ school has sent a form home asking us to supply a mobile phone number so they can text us with regular messages. However, they don’t seem to have considered that there are still dinosaurs out there who don’t have mobile phones. I’m one of them.
Read moreOviduct torsion in a hen
When the Other Half fed the chickens this morning, she noticed one of the hens was waddling and looking off-colour. She told me, so after finishing my jobs, I went to have a look. The hen, one of our older ISA Browns, was definitely walking strangely but she suddenly perked up when I came into [...]
Read moreArgh! The clocks changed…
We were pottering about, doing what we do, enjoying a welcome outbreak of sunshine and then we noticed the clock on the video recorder. The clock automatically updates from a signal embedded in the television transmissions, and it was an hour later than expected. What the…
Read moreFreshening the blog
I’ve decided, after almost two years using the Freshy theme, to give the blog a spring clean. I’ve changed to the Vigilance theme, added a new header image, changed the link colours to match colours in the header, and done a few other things. One of the things I particularly like is the Archives are [...]
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31 March, 2009


