Going Gently

Trelawnyd Gop Hill

I could not resist taking this short video on the top of the Gop this morning

The Flower Show

We had the first Flower Show meeting of the year tonight at Auntie Glad's house!

and after the usual bunfight we agreed on the format for this year's show!

see: http://trelawnydflowershow.blogspot.com/

I have lots to do before the next meeting. I need to liaise with the village school mistress to organise the childrens' entries, price up yards of bunting, and organise a new cup for the "basket of vegetables " entry!

Oh the responsibility!

The pigs of Trelawnyd

As requested by my cousin Carol.

1.12 am

The mouse has been dispatched........
peace has been restored

12.42.am

I can't sleep
Albert has brought in a live mouse and the whole household (1 cat and 4 dogs) are trying to catch the poor thing somewhere in the bedroom..... I have shut the door on them and am now having a cup of tea in the living room. Upstairs the noise is more frightening than the soundtrack of any horror film! and outside the guinea fowl have started to scream for the second time.....I have bolted out to the field with the torch twice now and have seen nothing
hey ho
Thank Goodness that Chris is still away

Avatar 3D

Janet and I were 3D virgins until this evening and although it was an interesting experience I won't be galloping like a wild thing to go and see my second "amazing multi dimensional experience".
What I didn't understand about 3D before tonight, is that it is only used at its fullest extent sporadically throughout the film. Certain sequences, such as Jake's walk through the forest at night and the 9/11-like destruction of the home tree are admittedly impressive, but generally I think that the slightly blurred and distracting 3D effects do not in fact enhance the experience of Avatar; in actual fact they make the whole experience, just that little bit unsatisfactory.
Avatar 3D 7/10
Well it least we kept the glasses!

Thanks to Kathy

This morning I have braved the icy wind and have manured the main vegetable patch. I have still got four more to weed,turn and fertilize but at least I have made the effort and have started the often back breaking ground work before spring.
I have unearthed the Jerusalem artichokes I planted last year (above left) and thanks to fellow blogger Kathy at The Cottage Garden Farmer-see (Kathy's blog ) I now know what to do with the little buggers (http://the-cottage-gardener.blogspot.com/2010/01/jerusalem-artichokes.html)
I have set out my potatoes for chiting and now have a ton of strawberry plants from my fellow villager Sandra, to plant out after the frosts in a huge strawberry bed of their own.

As I was humping the manure into place, the ducks, forgetting their usual reserve, jumped into action to sieve out the worms and grubs from the ground. Halleh (the only drake second from left) has been courting the runner females but has not as yet worked out how to mate with them, preferring the more "attractive" hens....hopefully it will be only a matter of time before he works out what exactly should go where. I do hope so, I am tired of chasing him off the hybrids on a daily basis.

The grave digger did a great job clearing the rubbish from the field stream, and although it looks rather muddy now, come spring the banks should be lovely and green. I will dam up part of it to make a proper small pond when I have some time, but the first thing I need to do is to re build the Church wall. Thank goodness the days are getting longer.

With Chris still away I am off to Llandudno later with my sister to see AVATAR in 3D.....