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HELLO FORKERS🌹🌹🌹 June ‘21

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning again everyone … I went back to sleep 🛌 💤 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Brrr. I’ve finished hanging three loads of washing out. I think they’ll be there for a long while. 

    I’ve just had a good laugh. I kept hearing a sheep calling out. When I eventually looked around towards next door’s paddock, there she was, standing on a high spot and looking at me and baaaring.  I called to her and asked what she wanted and then I woke up. The goats from her place had snuck into our place and were wolfing down everything in sight.  Hubby sent his drone up and as usual they magically shot back under the fence to their place.  When I turned around to thank mrs sheep, she had gone back to the group of sheep and I couldn’t pick her out. 😂😂😂. Clever girl. 
    S. E. NSW
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Goo
    Good morning to you all!

    Good news this morning!  Lovely rain!  Lovely, lovely rain.  Light and steady.  Refreshing the leaves and the ground.  Also have had signs of a hedgehog(s) in the last few days roaming around the garden.  

    The air is cooling down and the seagulls are flying around.  Rough seas are forecast with this weather.  Lots of white horses!

    Sunday:  rest day.

    I hope @D@D0rdogne_Damsel you are dry enough - but bad weather predicted - it has been soooo hot.

    @P@"Pat E"  Normally sheep are silly, but you've got a good 'un there.  We had goats next to us (on one side) on our farm in NZ.  Damn nuisance.  The owner grew orchids and decided to get goats.  Had no idea and had angora goats straining by the fence to deliver a huge kid from another species.  It was sad.  A lot of work for vets and the mother.  ....well ... on that note.

    Happy Sunday everyone.  May all your ladybirds have a feast today.  It's aphid day!!

    Tui
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    We used to run Angoras Tui. We never had any problems with them, but the ones next door are buts of devils. I still love goats though. 
    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh @tui34 that's so sad ... some people are such idiots ... I honestly think that there should be some sort of compulsory training for anyone who keeps animals.  I grew up on a  mixed farm with cattle pigs and poultry and Ma also kept a dairy goat.  I was a Young Farmer and learned a lot ... but later on when I got my own smallholding I did courses to brush up and increase my knowledge of animal husbandry.  We had a small dairy herd of Golden and English Guernsey goats, as well as bullocks, sheep, pigs, poultry etc and ponies. 

    It saddened me that I ended up caring for some rescued goats that had been kept by folk who'd never kept anything more than a budgie before, if that.  They were underweight, malnourished and worm-ridden and had never had their hooves trimmed.  Once we'd given them vitamin shots and wormed them and fed them up and trimmed their feet etc they were lovely goats ... must've cost their owners a lot of money to buy ... but they knew nothing about how to look after them. They thought it was easy to move from the city, buy a house and a field and live the good life ..........

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Just been watching a Song Thrush bashing the hell out of a snail.
    Gentle rain and if I say so myself, the garden is looking rather lovely.

    Todays song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_ffgwLVCs
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    @punkdoc it woudn't let me see/hear the video  :'(

    Glad your garden's looking lovely ... mine's looking like ....... well, it's looking post-diluvian .... except that I think there's more to come ........ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Try this.

    https://youtu.be/EgIw51zmiy8
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Morning all.  OH left early this morning again so I'm home alone and had a lovely lie in.
    Was going to plant out some young plants in border gaps but it started raining as soon as I stepped out of the door - blast! Now wondering what to do.
    You're right about courses for animal husbandry, @Dovefromabove, it should be compulsory. We're watching the progress of the little pigs in the old woodland near us, they're growing fast but amuse us by snuggling up all on top of each other in the sunshine. They seem to have a favourite spot under a fir tree so I'm guessing the pine needles underneath retain the warmth. Only trouble is the bigger they're growing, the worse the smell is becoming - especially when it was so hot recently.
    We need pics @Punkdoc, I'm glad you seem to be much more cheerfull lately, sunshine and warmth makes all the difference.
    I had a lovely chat with daughter yesterday, she's growing veg in pots for the first time, so many anxious enquiries! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thanks @punkdoc ... that takes me back to Art School  B)

    @Lizzie27 the smell of pigs and cows reminds me of home  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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