yeap it's pouring down with rain and I am surfing! very interesting how benign "gay" themes are helping to sell products albeit in a humourish way
Average day
Chris is away in Broadstairs again to help Sorrel sort out her retirement, and is away for a week! So it is me, the dogs and the birds again. Been up since dawn this morning, as I have re positioned all the enclosures. Also after being fired up with Nigel's plans for a herb garden, I have dug a substantial square block (15 x 20 feet) in which to plant a selection of culinary herbs/ My shallots (right) are showing already, and (below) are my broad bean seedlings which are looking healthy and strong inside the cloches.
Meg looks the worst for wear this morning after a brief but hearty fight with Janet's Jess. I was to blame as I was playing with all the dogs and in their excitable state the two bitches became jealous of each other over my attentions. ( I have never had two females fight over me before!!!!!!!)
Usually dog fights remain a sort of Mexican standoff, with both animals performing but not actually hurting each other, and this altercation was no different until William ( excited and acting rather like the adolescent that he is) jumped onto the two girls and bit Jess on the smartly on the rump.
Galvanised into a rage ( and thinking that Meg had somehow done the biting) Jess relaunched her attack with gusto and it took a bit of hard work and some brute force separating the two of them. At one stage I was lifting Meg up by her harness and swinging her around in the air like a cheap fairground ride in order to separate them, with a victorious Jess in hot pursuit.
The whole thing settled down as quickly as it started , with Jess scratched but intact....Meg has two bloody bites one on her forehead (see pic ) and the other on her leg.....her first wounds in three years.......she has slept all afternoon!
Did all the other jobs this afternoon, such as house work and weeding the garden and have jusr spent an hour catching up with Nu on the phone, whcih was lovely. Early night tonight.....
Cornerhouse
Went over to Manchester last night to meet up with Nigel and to go to the cinema ( review below) The Cornerhouse on Oxford Road is a smaller version of Sheffield's Showroom, and the cinemas are interestingly situated underground in a bunker type auditorium. We caught an early showing of The Orphanage, then got back to Heaton Chapel for Pizza, wine and a chat.An enjoyable evening.The Orphanage
The Orphanage (Orfanato, El (2007)) is a cracking horror film that delivers so, so much more than the a
verage scary movie. Director Juan Antonio Bayona bravely uses every "big dark house" movie cliche in the book to leave the audience wrung out and nervously laughing as he delivers a stunningly visual and incredibly tense ghost tale of guilt,child abuse and murder. Producer Guillermo del Toro obviously has injected some of his(Laberinto del fauno, El ) brutality into two horrific key scenes (the trapping of a hand in a slamming door and the sudden mutilating of a malevolent old woman in a car accident),but Bayona himself does not let the visual horror overshadow a moving and emotional story. about people that you actually care about.Belén Rueda gives great depth to the lead role of haunted mother Laura and it is lovely to see Geraldine Chaplin in a small but highly effective role as a medium called in to help her. Both women give the film a soul which is so evident in one of the most moving and bitter sweet climaxes I have ever seen in any horror film.Not a dry eye in the house.
A wonderful 9 out of 10
RIP Ripley
The duckling did not hatch yesterday, so with a heavy heart I re candled the egg and then opened it up. Inside was a perfectly formed but very dead duckling. I am not sure what caused its death,perhaps the humidity of the incubator was not just right, or perhaps I had not cleaned the porous egg well enough? who knows. I have been reading everything I can on duck hatching, so hopefully will be a little more prepared when I try with my ducks again after the 10th of April (that is when my e bay runner ducks are due to hatch)
Off to Manchester later to see Nige and we are off to The Cornerhouse Cinema which should be great
rainbow - since you been gone....a trip down a teenage lane
Now I had to ring the owner of the field to access the hen house this afternoon. Being a small world its owner was Sue, an old teenage friend of mine pre CB days! Sue as it turns out has not changed in 25 years (even to her waist measurement) and I got to thinking of all those teenage parties we used to have at her Bohemian home in 1978. With a kitchen full of cheesey whatsits, litre bottles of cider, party fours and the odd bottle of concord sweet wine, 30 spotty-ish sub adults, shouted and laughed and danced and sang along with the hits of the time. Rainbow always got the party going, with some skinny scruff bag in a dirty black t shirt, performing air guitar centre stage we all thought we could remember all the words!
Wimbledon colours
Painted the new coop today, very lawn tennis! no luck with the duck egg today......bit worried we may have another casualty.......
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