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Where do I
start…lots to do and so little time.. I always had too many
hobbies…now I have added web editing on the list too so I'd better get a bit
done… ……………………………………………………… January 2010
Well… it's been a good old fashioned winter so far this year…lots of nice snow …so I had a few trips out to get some new pictures…have a look here Snow Pics Now February is coming fast...It's a short month and seems to rush by.... then suddenly we are fighting to get ready for EASTER and the busy times are upon us again. .
My ducks and hens will have nice fresh grass instead of mud in the fields opposite the pub…where you and I can enjoy watching them…. over the wall or from the garden… talking
of walls…if you’ve been before you will notice it’s been ‘Andrew'd…’
the ravages of time…..sheep …and drivers using stones to chock their car wheels
whilst parking on the bankside had left it in a bad state
It’s been
completely taken down and rebuilt…now you can really appreciate the wonderful
stones and his amazing craftsmanship !
and it keeps the stock in and
the sheep out…..which is what its really there for … We found some lovely treasures too…. Stones with fossilised ferns and embedded shells… If YOU
need any walling done… contact Andrew Fordham-Brown 01653 669447 It’s been a bit of a bit of a ‘stone’ time just lately……at last I have found the cup and ring stones on the moor above beck Hole.. ! A local chap used to tell me he found them once but seemed to
have ‘lost’ them again.. and I’ve wandered up there often hoping to come
across one.. Then one bright cold day I set off determined to
track them down…I’d been looking at a wonderful website
there
the stones were described and one had a GPS reference…that was my starting
point and I managed to find four more before my fingers and face were frozen
and I came home for a good slug of last years sloe brandy to warm me up !
Two of the carved stones I found…
Sitting with the wind at my back on a cushion of heather
and bilberry. ...I wondered what these designs looked like before
3.000 years of wind and weather…and who it was who sat perhaps just
where I was…patiently working away with some fragment of harder stone….and why ?. --------------------------
Our last day off till November... had a yearning to go see Castlerigg Stone Circle.. just a couple of hours across country on the A66, just outside Keswick lovely trip over but a wild and windy night with sleet and rain..and still gales on Tuesday..waited for as long as my fingers would let me for a shaft of sun ..not my lucky day...but did get one or two atmospheric shots here's my favourite
----------------------- Time flies.. and I've found a few minutes to review my own page !! have a look at these few pics from our scottish trip at the end of last year and this years holiday in Venice.
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By May 2008 our little flock had dwindled to three hens and a cockerel
Tyrone, Teeth, Pteradactyl and KP and so we were on the lookout for recruits.. Eventually found the right hens and a free afternoon to go and collect them..my very handsome and gentlemanly cockerel, Tyrone, could hardly believe his luck...here they are .
Then there were 9..and summer 2009 brought a new Cockerel..Louis .. a bevvy of Buff Orpingtons.. and a brood of CHICKS for the first time in ages..three Barnevelders (they will lovely brown eggs when they grow up ) and three Black Orpingtons... shouldn't run out of eggs this summer...
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