I hate suitcases.  I am just back from having a growl at one that has appeared on the bedroom floor.  I have tried it for size, and empty it is too big, and full there is no room......patently I am not invited.   I keep catching soft, behind the hand chats with words I … Continue reading An infill erstwhile report by Gizmo

A Disaster!  Goodness me, poor Skye. I sort of know how it happened and I blame myself absolutely.  However, in my own defence, I can’t actually be everywhere at one time, and I was battling to get my holiday head off - it didn’t want to go back in the box - and I was … Continue reading A terrible happening, report by Giz

At first Skye and I couldn’t see the point of the long rather puzzling drive on Christmas Eve; the good thing was that we didn’t get lost and Skye was not sick - thanks to my excellent story-telling to distract her, and the only thing that went wrong was I accidentally stepped on the chocolate … Continue reading Christmas by the sea, by Gizmo

Lots of planning is being called for this week.  I am having to do a great deal of thinking, chewing an inordinate number of pencils in the process. Polly - deputy Shepherd- now called Dep Shep for short - came home after a walk and announced she had saved a sheep - one of ours … Continue reading Trying to Shepherd caringly and carefully By Gizmo, aided by Polly

Exhausted by all this form filling..............Tuesday this week was a Red Letter Day.  A really amazing Remember-It-Forever Day.  We had a phone call saying somebody was coming to check the sheep medicine book, which got everyone in a bit of a flap (including OC, who flapped with energy trying to make up for last week’s … Continue reading An Inspector Comes To Call – Giz reporting

OC has really done it this time.  On Friday, Mum left to play with Granny, so Skye, Dad and I went off checking on stuff, clearing the workshop, spot of counting, spot of woofing, spot of wooding, bit of inconsequential digging, filling up our time busily, productively and most pleasurably as usual.  About one o’clock … Continue reading A Little Bit Of A Do….Report by Gizmo

The shepherds hut at top of step forward, before the step back, showing fetching lead work, and OC with two boy pheasants and her new friend the lady pheasant on the rockery, and a close up of OC with her new friend eating together very comfortably!! much love, Giz xx

The rain and wind have arrived, no doubt it is a Storm Stephanie, Hurricane Horace, Wicked Wind Wendy or Breezy Betty or some such.  All I can say is that it is wet and I don’t like it. So.  I have a plan.  I may need a bit of a hand perhaps, which costs a … Continue reading Unforeseen circumstances…..various…. by Gizmo

A good portrait of me, myself and I taking charge and one of my favourite pictures of my sheep a few years ago coming down from Cwm Benji.   I have been working on my numbering.  I gather that Bears with Lesser Brains than me are struggling to comprehend exactly how many walkers and sheep … Continue reading Numbering and stuff – explanatory report from Gizmo

I don’t know how to be a mum. I don’t know how to be a dad. I don’t know how to be a good person, but often I do know how to help.  I was thinking about this today.  I know when somebody I love is feeling lost or hurt or cross or maybe just … Continue reading A thoughtful ponder…..that ended well. From Giz as well….