After a jaunt to visit an old friend I am now determined to lick this gremlin and finish posting up to date!
The three orphan lambs have done well and are in a nice little croft close by for ease of feeding and care.
A huge sycamore tree demolished this wall and it will have to be built up, but at present Nic is busy coping with the dreaded Himalayan Balsam that has taken root in one field - and with shearing by hand three naughty sheep who evaded the round up for shearing. The saying "first catch your sheep" is very true - we gave up after over an hour of fruitless chasing around the fields after them.
The shearing went very well this year thanks to a very quick and efficient local shearer - teabreaks like this were few and far between.
Isn't the view over the farmstead beautiful? The house and cottages are on the right sheltered by the hill. We now have a badger set on the bank to the left. Not a welcome addition as there is so much TB in the local badgers and farms around us with cattle are in quarantine and unable to sell cattle.
We are blessed with a wonderful Mountain rescue team in the Peak District aided when needed by helicopter support. This is actually a rock climbing friend of ours who was lifted off the Welsh hills by their rescue services - his first accident in many years of safe climbing - a badly sprained ankle was luckily the result and nothing more serious.
The first week of July is always Buxworth Wells Dressing week and we opened St James' Church in Buxworth and served delicious homemede cakes to many visitors who came to see the two wells at the church and pub. Next year the church might try their hand at a well dressing board ourselves to be placed outside the church!
The flowers were kept simple this year with no theme as in past years but the church looked lovely.
We will be re-painting it at long last in August as it has looked very sad and neglected.
Its a very friendly church built in the 1870s with money raised by the locals and built using labour given free by the workers in Bugsworth Lime works.
Another excitement was the arrival of Lola, a lively and adorable Puggle - a cross between a pug and a beagle. Her proud owner with her.
Our old collie Jess is not too sure what to make of this new baby.
Also Jess at 11 has been in the wars and cut her back foot very badly on the mowing machine while "helping" Nic cut thistles. She is deaf now and was running behind the machine instead of in front, so must have misjudged her run. She has been to and fro to the local vets for 3 weeks at vast cost but the paw has been saved with only the loss of the 2 front digits and she is getting around very happily with a slight limp.
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