Blankets, inspecting the hay, roses, wild strawberries on the rockery, our lovely acer and a visit from a new friend. At last the sun has come back.  It’s been a whole month, just after the departure of lovely OC since I had a moment to put pen to paper as it were.  There has been … Continue reading June and into July…..

Aren’t these just great?  They are all of ME!!  Our friend Meg (who is staying with us just now as her people are doing the suitcase thing) anyway, Meg has a Person Who is just brilliant at making portraits, and here is a sample of what she has done for me.  I love them so … Continue reading Some wonderful portraits of interest….

Well.  Today I am the bearer of the most saddest of sad news. OC, our favourite chicken, once named Other Chicken when Ginger (RIP)  was still here, who became Only Chicken on her passing,  moved on to pastures new last night.  We are all unbelievably sad, and will miss her woefully.  I will particularly miss … Continue reading The sad passing of OC by Giz

    Sheep sheltering from the sun:   Please share your sandwich:   Fencing in the oakwoods:   Strange flower:    I know someone lives in there, but I can’t reach him or perhaps he is out:   Baby thrush. *********************************************************************************   These past few weeks have been frantic - so much so that I … Continue reading Update on OC and Easter……and more by Gizmo

Introducing Gizmo, the writer.  It occurs to me that now my blog is opening out to people who don’t already know and love me,  many may not know exactly who I am and how and why my voice translates to the page.   I am a Welsh Fox Terrier from Tony Pandy, where the speaker … Continue reading Introducing me….Gizmo. I wrote this ages ago and forgot to put it up……..

  Random tulips (or perhaps not so random.  I just didn’t know they were there):  Skye catching sticks in the brook: a particularly fetching and strange daffodil: cooling my feet: Mrs GBTL with her new son: proud of our new raised veg bed - note coloured balls to stop the gardener poking his eye out … Continue reading From under the Christmas tree in the veg garden……by Giz

Argh!  There has been so much comings and goings over this past week that I hardly know where to start!   First to say, OC who is still my favourite hen, continues to improve and appears to travel through the kitchen five times a day on her way to the rockery to harass the pheasants.  … Continue reading Spring…….at last

Well, now, here’s a thing.  The Storm family seem to have moved in with their attending winds and rain, hail and freezing chill.  And then suddenly....a pair of twins in the field!!  What the.........is what I thought.  I tucked my pencil behind my ear and hurried up to interview whoever it was that had been … Continue reading So much for Not Lambing

Last week there were suitcases again but very small ones so we knew this absence would not be for long.  These short goings away mean that Meg comes up with her person and we have fine walks with her, which is very nice for a change. Anyway, they returned and brought this Storm Freya with … Continue reading February came and went……

Not being one to dwell on the vicissitudes of the past, this weekend has finally been one that I can report on.  I will just say that I think nothing of people who go away for two weeks, and then take to their beds for another week when they get home.  No.  It was not … Continue reading Post holiday action…….well, a bit of…