Kensmyth

Breakfast is often missed in our house because mornings simply take over. coffee is the “dish of the day” so it was a lovely treat to be taken out for Breakfast having done the livestock first recently…

First choice for Breakfast has to be Made By Bobs in the Centre of Cirencester – I can then have a quick chat with fellow stallholders in the Cirencester Corn Hall Craft Market you see!

A Full Fried English, extra toast and Eggs Benedict – Yum, Yum

I had been glued to Broadchurch as we have friends involved in it. Just before the last part aired on TV having finished filming a long time prior, we had another Film Crew visit us here at Clay Meadow again. One of them worked on Broadchurch and showed us the lovely Hoodie they had all been presented with when the Filming finished. A really nice touch.

it has the name of absolutely everyone involved in it which is pretty amazing!

Farming folk rarely do lunch on Festive days at lunchtime because it interrupts the work of the day, here is no exception. Lamb – nope our Rare Breeds are not for eating but for fleece so Turkey got the vote!

sounds like a morbid title for a blog, perhaps it is a little but today is a time to reflect because our family lost a very dear friend suddenly after just a two month illness that no one knew about – a brain tumour.

my thoughts are with the family and I thought that a spring ray of sunshine was best to reflect upon the fun side of his character and he will be greatly missed. He was just 58 but his memory lives on.

I have said it before and I will say it again – sometimes you just take a photograph that totally shows why you make some of the decisions you made…

you might think this is a bit of a weird blog but I rarely get time to go out shopping to buy something with Birthday money I am given. However, I did need a new handbag and with money from my parents, mother in law and brother in law, I finally bought one. I always try to shop locally so Elizabeth James Designer Italian leather handbags suited me perfectly near the Corn Hall in Cirencester … Mum asked what colour is it and I said – it changes in the light – see what you think!

one minute we are enjoying sunshine and free spirits…

and the next its cosy and heating and frost!

minus 7 this week – in April 2017 – amazing!

The weather first hot then wet then hot and now cold has confused most of us let alone the grass – yet it continues to grow madly.

whilst hedges were dealt with months ago, the fields need keeping in order.

A time for topping and tidying- do not let the grass grow under your feet – so we have to flail top and collect where necessary in order to keep the farm functioning as we want it to!

I am a great believer in reading your chosen subject and very much hands on experience – those of you attending husbandry courses and Alpaca experiences find that out very quickly!

So it is little surprise that I attended a Wensleydale Society meeting recently and witnessed how other breeders work alongside these magnificent quadrupeds.

travelling through parts of the Cotswolds I have never seen, it was a great experience and I learnt a lot.

I have to say they are rather um “selective” and like their ewe nuts to be a certain size… leaving the large ones behind… rather interesting because the large nuts were the top brand ones and the smaller the cheaper!