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| Hilly one of our volunteers with her caterpillar birthday cake! |
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| Our local Waitrose manager hard at work discussing the 'why's and wherefores' of the strimmer...! |
We are half way through the holidays, and Gerry has been busy running a series of 'Summer Activities' for school age children. The first week was incredibly hot, but armed with plenty of sun cream, sting relief spray, and hats; all the children had a great time! We have 3 more Activity days next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, with a few spaces left so.....email Gerry if you are interested.
We've had a busy time with some of the Ewes - having put them out to pasture on a lovely old Bank; we discovered that two of them had developed abscesses on their necks. They had lost a lot of condition, unlike all the others, so we brought them home to the farm and called the vet. Rob, took syringes of 'puss' and blood from both of them and gave them antibiotics. We have just had the results back, and luckily it's nothing serious - with all the dry weather, it's most likely either an infection from thistles, or where they have lain on a hawthorn in the field. Then of course we've just had the bill from the vets too....not so good! The rest of the flock look really good - some of the ram lambs should be ready to go off at the end of next month. My friend Cindy, has put her beautiful Mare and foal out with the sheep, to keep them company.
Gerry has also been busy at the 'Country markets' each Friday morning too - we pick furiously on Thursday evenings, and then she leaves at 7.30 am to set up on Friday!
TERMS STARTS AGAIN THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER....
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