Friday, 3 December 2010

Poppy's World November 2010


What a lovely day, I started with a walk around the big field with her who should be obeyed, she has this thing about checking the trees, I don’t know why they all seem very happy to me. I saw a few rabbits but decided that I would play hard to get and ignored them for the time being. The leaves are falling on my head and it is fun to bounce around in them, I found some small mice asleep in the log pile and work them up.
The Master has been in with the pigs for a very long time so I decided to remind him that I was waiting to play tractor girl, he told me to be quiet or he would send me to my bed AGAIN! He was very interested in the piglets and stood counting them again! I keep telling him that there are 50 left,
they seemed to think that the man from Woodbridge with the cheeky little girls would like 6 of the ginger girls, I tried to tell them that their mummy’s would prefer them to stay. The girls were lifted into the wooden crate on the tractors forks and they were moved out to the middle gate. I stayed with them for a while but then I decided that the pigeons in the old oak trees needed to be reminded who was boss. She who must be obeyed was telling the Master which of the pigs were going on their holidays, something about Christmas time and customer orders, the Master decided to move the pigs around so I decided that I would investigate the new netted area.
The boys have not been around for a few weeks and I have missed playing with them, they also when she who must be obeyed is not looking give me treats, so I was very pleased when we went on a road trip and went to see them. The house where they are now playing has a Jack Russell that comes to visit so I told her that any treats were mine, she told me where to go and went off in a huff. I was able to play tractor girl with the digger and dumper for a while, they had the picture that she who must be obeyed drew and were talking about it. The man in the lovely house said he was very happy and brought us all a cup of tea.

When we got back to the Stackyard I was very good, the man from the butchers had been and delivered meat and as a special treat some bones for me and my friends, Harry came by and collected his, I tried to kiss him but he seemed more interested in the bones. I have found a very good place on the side of the pond to dig a big hole, although it did take a few holes to find the right place to hide my bone. She who must be obeyed was very good about the holes especially as I also caught a mole. Now where to bury it!

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Tony came to help today!

Tony came to help today and we achieved lots:-

  • Orchard area picked over and seeded with grass.
  • Dug over and started planting out the other side of the pond.
Tim and James worked on the tree display area.

Karon supervised!

Caroliona weeded the trees on the lines.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Day 2 - Simon

Sunshine and showers.

Tim and James completed the roof on the two substations and then put up the barbed wire to prevent Miss Nasty (One of the Managlitza pigs) from chewing her way completely through the stock proof fence.

Karon and I did some filming for the website.  Including Rubies new babies.

I had a lunch out at the pub with Jeremy and his family and left Karon to look after the shop.  Then when to the office to do some editing.

Monday, 23 August 2010

Day 1 - Simon

For all those expecting this to be Kaorn I have a disappointment.  She is asleep on the sofa.  I have been catching up with Emails after our second power cut in a week.
As you can tell from the above I am at home since we are still waiting for power on site 15 months after paying EDF over 21K.
So what has happened at the Stackyard Nursery today.  I guess that is the point of this Blog - to let you know!
Well, James and Tim took one look at the weather this morning  and called Karon to say that it was not worth coming in.  What a Summer we are having - Blistering heat a the start, before we had our irrigation system in and now seemingly constant deluges of rain, post irrigation system.  I guess life always seems like that when you are dealing with elements.
I started on the roofs of the power substations, but did not get very far, due to mud and Tony who kindly turned up with family and an enormous box that he thought that we might use.  We tried Karon's surveying tools in it and concluded that, although not ideal, would be far better than the current practice of lumping them around in the back of the van.