Again Chris is working away for the majority of the week, so with the weather cold but dry, I have gotten on with outside chores for over eight knackering hours. All 13 coops have been cleaned of the wet steaming bedding that has almost gone mouldy in the damp weather and fresh bedding has been laid down in them and in the pig hut. The baby Turkeys and guinea fowl are still holding their own in the shed and have been cleaned out too and I have arranged for local feed shop owner Helen to deliver an old unwanted shed to the field, which should house all of the turkeys including Boris and Gloria. The guinea fowl can then be housed in the old turkey house and the circle of animal movement can continue.I even had time to fit in a bout of dog bathing Hopefully I can catch up with some more good cinema this week with Hazel. She wanted to see A Serious Man , but I think was glad she didn't after I gave her my slightly lacklustre review of it this morning.
I was disappointed with A Serious Man. Typical of the Cohens, this voyage down the vagaries of fate and life of a1960 middle class Jewish Professor, centred about the misfortunes that beset people, but unlike their previous movies, all of the bad luck that visits academic Larry Gopnick (the excellent Michael Stuhlbarg) is not of his own doing. In characteristically deadpan black humour, we see Gopnick's career,homelife, family and health crumble around him , and although I could appreciate the humour and pathos of it all, I found the whole film rather exasperating and just that little bit indulgent and irritating
I gave the whole thing 7/10...... and thought to myself as I left the cinema, that the whole excitement over the film was perhaps a case of The Emperor's New clothes?
These 26 are my first guinea fowl, got the pearl guinea's as day-olds from a hatchery. They are not like the chickens and turkeys, not so domesticated. fly around a lot too. I find myself always using an adjective in front of guinea's such as - those "crazy" guinea's. They are, however, a hoot to watch. I'm sure their constant screeching would drive some people "crazy" but doesn't bother us. If one is doing something, all 26 have to do it, or they're fussing at each other. I plan to put in another order for some pied. Don't know if y'all have ticks, but we saw many on the dogs this year, but I plan for the guinea's to wipe out the tick population on our land.
ReplyDeleteGreat bathtime shot! Which reminds me it's time for my pooches bathes. They get them the beginning of each month and it is not a fun venture. My aching back!!
ReplyDelete"the whole excitement over the film was perhaps a case of The Emperor's New clothes?"
ReplyDeleteFunny, I felt the same way about the new Star Trek film. Still miffed!!! Never mind. Fingers crossed that they'll eventually do "Blakes 7 - the movie". Script ideas, anyone?
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