Sunday 1st January
2017
Happy New Year
dear reader!
Today, at Lower
Shaw farm, it rained, and rained, and rained, despite which, for the first time
in living memory, there is no water in the duck pond.
We are puzzled.
By this time, midwinter, it is normally full. What’s going on?
And it’s a
strange first day of the year, with so much rain, and us being out in it,
walking and running (parkrun) but the animals all under cover, the hens locked
up in the hen house because of Bird Flu (DEFRA’s orders) and the pigs in their
neat beds of straw because their pen is a mud bath.
We have a lovely
group of winter walkers here, who celebrated the passing of the old year and
arrival of the new one with walks in the day time and games, puzzles, and songs
in the evening, plus saunas, and plenty of good food too.
This afternoon,
we saw a buzzard, in the trees behind the sheep pen.
