Monday, 25 February 2013
I finally gave
up this week and turned on an extra radiator. Normally I only heat the kitchen
for me and the dogs and my office/library, but it has been SO cold that moving
from one room to the other just got unbearable! As I had the all clear to
remove the back brace I think I am a little more susceptible to the cold than
usual.
We have just
finished the two weeks of half term and I have to say that although it has been
bitterly cold and sitting in the flying field with an easterly wind driving up
from the pond has been a heroic effort by the visitors, we have still had
them!! Of course I really think they are nuts, I would have sat by the fire
with a book and a cuppa given the chance!! However it has been lovely to be
busy again and although the second week has been very cold and grey it has been
DRY!!! In fact my field is finally drying out and for the first time in
probably 10 months the pond is not overflowing.
The daffodils
have stopped dead, they obviously have said to themselves that they blew it,
they have been the same height for a week and my poor crocuses and not happy
either. The gardens look a little bare I have to say, but my staff gave me some
garden vouchers for Christmas, which of course I have not been able to spend,
but now I am mobile (ish) again, I can go out and have fun with them.
My hospital
appointment went fine, the fracture is healed and I was told that some people
wait a couple of weeks to take off the brace and others take it off as soon as
they get home, I carried mine out of the hospital! I did offer it back to them,
but the surgeon looked a little affronted and said would I wear a secondhand
brace – absolutely I would especially when I was waiting for the damn thing to
arrive for several days! Although I have to admit mine is held together with a
bit of wire where a screw came out. It is residing in the butler’s pantry until
I can think of something to do with it!
We have two
horses in the field for a month – and no I am not riding again, I don’t think I
could get on a horse right now if I tried, and anyway although they say my back
is mended, it does not exactly feel like it, it’s pretty sore still. These
horses are in foal mares that belong to two good friends of mine and they are
here so she can sort out her field and buildings ready for foals! It’s good to
see a horse in the field again, although I think Nathan is less pleased. He
started to mow again – hooray, it always looks so nice when things are mown. My
front lawn I am told looks like Basra, with landmines from the dogs and mole
hills, I am about to wage war on the moles as they are causing a lot of damage
all over. It’s a shame you can’t train burrowing owls to get moles, I could
earn a fortune!
The birds are
laying furiously, Hemp has an egg (not that is will be fertile, but she is a
great sitter). The Griffon Vultures have hatched their baby all by themselves.
The two Grey Buzzard Eagle babies are doing well now. Some of the owls have
eggs and the Hooded Vultures have laid too, we are hoping they will hatch as we
want to keep them and fly them. I will not be sorry when the weather warms up,
although I would be happy if it would warm up to a drought please, its always a
worry with eggs and really cold weather. Here is hoping it will change soon.
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