I’m on my own for a week as the Other Half and the boys are off on holiday. They get sun, sand and grandparents, I get a double-dose of chores as I try to get a large section of the house redecorated while also managing the livestock. With everyone gone, I can indulge my whims […]
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Archive | July, 2012
Harvey is fully fit again
30 July, 2012 
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I took Harvey, our Border Terrier, to the vet today to have his booster vaccinations and get him checked as it’s now a month since he came off the last of his medications for Auto-Immune Hemolytic Anaemia (AIHA)/Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (iMHA). The vet was new to the practice, which gave Harvey the opportunity to […]
Read moreSuggestions sought for ebook title
23 July, 2012 14 Comments
Having had a number of requests for my recipes to be more accessible and/or gathered in one place, I’ve started indexing them and begun compiling them as an ebook. A book needs a title, so I’m looking for suggestions in the format of:
Read moreAlarums and excursions
18 July, 2012 8 Comments
Asleep. Light flashes on my eyelids. Start. Awake. Idling engine. Diesel. Remember I left windows open. Remember farm thefts. Our area. Past week. Late at night. I leap out of bed, vault into the jeans I’d carefully set out at the end of the bed, race through to the hall and jump into my […]
Read more@£#$%&# rain!
15 July, 2012 15 Comments
We’ve had rain and low temperatures for weeks. Yesterday was cool but dry. The temperature even made it into double figures—11ºC. The grass and hard standing dried off to some degree. This morning, the sun broke through for a time and with the hard standing dry I decided to fit a new handbrake cable to […]
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