I'm in shock!! I've been checking my stats over the last couple of days (yes, I know it's sad!!) and I seem to have acquired a lot more readers!! (and it has caused an outbreak of exclamation marks!) So no pressure then to write another intelligent and witty post!! Oh well, here goes.....
Although it's only the middle of August and is supposedly still summer, autumn is creeping in, as can be seen in these two adjacent fields
a late summer cut of hay
and autumm harvest
then there are summer flowers still blooming in the verge
and autumn seedheads
I'm still walking three miles Monday to Friday (got to get the legs fit for Sydney!). Getting up at 6.30 to go out walking means not too much time is spent looking glamorous (I just about manage to brush my hair), but I don't think that I look so bad that these horses need blinkers on!
Do you remember the recent post about the goose making a great racket when I was taking photos of the Jacob's sheep? Well, it wasn't a goose, it was a gander, and he belongs to my neighbour, Marion, who breeds Jacob's sheep (as we live in the country, a neighbour is anyone who lives within a two mile radius!). The reason he was making such a fuss, is that he is in love with one of the lambs! I took the next photo another morning, when Marion had just let the lambs out
It's that quiet time of year for news, so as usual the stories of large cats prowling the countryside are back - so I was slightly worried to see this ahead of me in the road
So what was it - a panther or some other large beastie, escaped perhaps from a zoo?
it was just a very large domestic cat!!
I was at the dentist this morning for a very long and painful scaling of my teeth - and I have to go back on Monday to have a tooth out. I kept telling the dentist that the tooth hurts when I eat, and finally today, yet another x-ray showed that it is cracked beyond saving. When I got back home, Malcolm took me out for lunch to cheer me up, but there was a slight delay on the way - a country-style traffic jam!
ps Stuart's big fish (last Wednesday's post) is a red gibbicep plecostomus (you probably knew that!)