Sunday 19th April: Happy birthday Lauren. Today started warm and sunny but after lunch became misty and cool. In the morning we poddled round getting the washing done, baking a loaf of bread for lunch, etc and found some time to tidy the garage a bit.
After lunch we drove to friends for an hour or two. They have two children - Arianna is a month older than Peter and Harley is a day younger than Jonathan. They live on a farm that takes one day old calves and feeds them until they are 100kg. then they go to another farm and then off to the works another year or so later. The children all played around the farmhouse while the adults chatted. Five days ago their cat brought in two tiny ducklings in its mouth. As we are well into autumn it's very late for ducklings to be born, and a visit to a cat's sharp teeth wasn't going to help either! One duckling died but they are looking after the other one. When we arrived it was swimming around a washing-up bowl and after we had all had a cuddle it went for a nap in its shoe box. They hadn't named it yet, but I suggested 'Splash' and they all agreed it was a great name. The photo is of Splash in Edward's hands.
At the farm we exchanged some of our hen eggs for some of their empty feed bags to put pine cones in to sell. More about that another day.....
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