Tonight

“When all the doors on my Advent calendar have opened, then it will start to snow! Then it will be Christmas! After I go to bed, there will be the clip-clop of hooves on the roof if you listen closely. Then the thud thud thud of boots. And Father Christmas will slide down the North Pole, and come out the fireplace- and he won’t get stuck because his sack is TOO BIG, because he’d be careful. He will walk down the hallway- clomp clomp clomp and the noise that he makes is Ho Ho Ho! And he’ll fill up my stocking with PRESENTS and fill up Kate’s stocking too, and he’ll put more presents under my Christmas tree. He’ll eat up his biscuits and drink his milk and take the carrot for his reindeer. Then he’ll fly away around the world!”
Farmboy, 2010

Have a wonderful Christmas, and may your stocking be as full!

What a week!

What a week…

 

A week of warriors…

A week of wounds…

(Bad Bill!)

A week of wallies…

(namely Muddy, who finally met his match in the White Dam gate, which grabbed his back leg as he leapt over it, dislocating his hip. A month of crate rest for your sins, Muddy!) 

A week of wonder…

(Father Christmas at daycare!)

A week of walking…

(almost- cruising, anyway) 

A week of waiting…

(patiently behind field bins, that always seem to be heading to the exact same place we are)

“Oversize”. Just in case we hadn’t noticed…

 

A week of wheat…

Watch out behind! 

A week of work…

(The apprenticeship of Farmboy is underway)

Ginger Biscuit enjoys the end product 

What next, I wonder?

That’s more like it!

Feeling a bit on the grumpy side?

 

You probably need one of these:

Try this one!

Or perhaps this:    

Nothing like a kid, pup and visitor-packed week to cheer me up. Perthites passing through, unexpected family drop-ins, trialling friends and puppy picking people, local mates x 7, a happy houseful of small people and animals. To top it all off, I mastered not one but three CWA cookbook classics! And people ate them! And survived!

Fred-Queani version 3.0 (Split girl)

v3.1 (Meg II)

v3.2- Speckle

v3.3, Arrow: 

v3.4, Blaze

  v3.something- maybe Ziggy (Dark girl) or Plain Boy

And v3.7, the token fluffy, found in every F-Q litter, Spot:

Another F-Q token fluffy, Maverick (v2.1) dropped in for a long hard look at our sheep, and give us a preview of how this litter might turn out (in Mav’s case, a stronger version of Queani with more eye) 

And he brought his friend Selby, who had her first up close and woolly experience.

Selby is, rather fascinatingly, a seal colour, which I haven’t seen before in the flesh.       

That’s better, isn’t it, Ginger Biscuit?