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Last week


 The beginning of the week we had farmer J's brother and our two nephews staying for a couple of nights while en route to the Pyrenees. We managed to put the youngest to work helping with the animals and weeding while his dad and brother relaxed and slept - a lot.


 Maude and Mabel are in training for sitting on top of out gate posts.They are now taking them selves of to bed of an evening so no more hunt and herd the ducks.




Casualties in the veggie patch, the rabbits have eaten the french beans now working their way through the borlotto beans I am sure there is a Italian recipe somewhere for rabbit and beans. The broccoli / cabbage (cant remember what it may be) is about the only survivor with nibbled leaves the flea beetles have settled making the poor leaves look like a miniature machine gun has hit it. I'm happy to of found a red strawberry before a fluffy bob tail, if I put chicken wire around the handful  that are growing I may save them for us but then they would work out at being very expensive strawberries - it did taste good though.



The county mice have got over the trip to the big smoke to move Miss F into her new flat. After fetching and carrying we walked past a lot of fast food shops trying to get an early bite to eat before heading back finally saying to Miss F we can walk no more, we stopped here for a strange sandwich of steak hache and fries and veggie wraps with fries wrapped in to. Miss F why did we walk so far in the heat?


 The piglets are enjoying life, still with five in each enclosure the electric fence is doing its job. gaining in size the water trough will soon be outgrown for a dip.



Our close neighbours and friends invited us to share their special day celebrating the marriage of their son and now daughter in law. It was a lovely wedding, thankfully the rain stayed away and it wasn't too hot. Such a lot of attention to detail made for a day many brides would dream of. The cake was layers of cheese (you could trap a lot of mice there). Not being able to work my new cameras flash the photos came out very shaky (or perhaps that was the free flowing wine consumed).
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