This week

 Now we are in February the weather has started to change into mid winter weather, a flurry of snow, sleet, rain, wind and damp weather has made everywhere look a bit drab. Mud is everywhere, the cows are grounded to a small bit of the field and hanger as there big hoofed would rip the fields up making them no good for grass this year.

Pigs keep digging, hiding their troughs under mud, four were moved after there was nowhere left to put there food troughs or for them to stand. I keep getting stuck, a small group of four managed to push me over in  their eagerness for food tonight. mud managed to get through my overalls, in my boots, inside my rubber gloves and up my sleeve. Then it started to snow, thankfully by the time we had got back to the house it had stopped.

Franklin was back at the vets for a check on his stitches, a couple were removed for his leg to drain. it has had to be manipulated and sprayed with blue antiseptic spray twice a day thankfully he has had to keep his collar of shame on which stops him from biting but not shaking himself so the walls and kitchen cupboards now have blue spots on them. We should get his biopsy results back tomorrow and hopefully he can have his stitches out as the cone is driving him and us up the wall (he has no spacial awareness crashing around and banging into things a lot day and night, we have thin walls here).

I failed to finish my jumper for January with the back and two sleeves completed I am hoping to finish the front this week as I have ordered some wool by post for my next project.

Work wise the last of the meat chickens went on Monday with us being able to keep two for ourselves so chicken is back on the menu, they were BIG chickens having being given a months reprieve as the little abattoir we use couldn't fit them in. It was also pork, sausage and bacon week so a few days have been spent wearing hair nets.

My car failed it control technique (MOT) before Christmas, being given two months to rectify its failures it had a new tyre and it exhaust welded before I took it back for its re test. The guy couldn't do the emissions test as its now very unwell and not firing on all cylinders, its gone to the mechanic where hopefully he can sort her out, she is getting on in years, 17 in fact so its probably time for a bit of TLC for her.

The water company had a leak so turned our water off to mend it resulting in our water supply now running very sporadic spluttering and splurging and breaking the pressure reducer on the boiler so its boiling kettles till our water settles down into a constant running out of the taps and not a shower or nothing each time they are turned on.

At least the kitchen is warm, farmer J has started to brew a new lot of beer which needs to be kept at a constant temperature, so far the thermometer reads 132 degrees C, i think the thermometers gone up the creak or maybe that's why the dogs spend a lot of the time like this.