Wow its been ages since I posted as I have been reminded by my loyal reader, thankyou Fluff!I find that its one of those things where the less I post the more it takes to get me to get on with it.
We have done christmas, with all the trimmings, tree, pudding, snowy landscape, frozen water supply to livestock, tractors that wont start, broken oven.
Despite these things we all had a great time, my brother in Brisbane said it rained all day for them and though he loves life down under he misses cold chrismas .
We had a particularly perfect tree this year, Richards sole christmas task is to choose and buy the tree, I do the rest, cooking shopping wrapping etc, most of the presents come as a big surprise to him.This tree had stood in a bucket of water/ice in the barn until chrismas eve and on bringing it into the house we found it was full of snow, not much chance of that melting outside so we stood it on an old sheet till it was frost free. Its great now the children are old enough to help with the tree and to have an opinion about what looks good as opposed to how much can we get on it!
We cooked the pork in the solid fuel rayburn, instead of stuffing I rubbed the inside with crushed fennel, salt and garlic and it was delicious, I couldnt get the crackling to crackle but it didnt matter. This is my flaming christmas pudding, I have a bottle of grappa made by one of my brothers in laws, it is completely undrinkable but boy does it flame!!The tupperware in the background is full of home made brandy butter, if you let it defrost too much it separates, and thats my excuse for not putting it in a bowl.
It seems ages since christmas now, the children are all back at school and the snow is long gone, mind you it is also a long time till spring. We noticed that one of our boy lambs must have escaped with his manhood unaltered as he has been happily tupping away at the girl lambs. They are now separated but we will have to scan the girls in case any are now expecting.
Hopefully I will keep on posting now I have started.
Happy 2011 everyone.
Finally, you're back!
ReplyDeleteI need to tell you that I love that first picture looking outside from the window.
I'm glad that you had a nice Christmas and that everything is well. I was getting a bit nervous. I was going to call the British Police and ask them to go over and check on you. But then they would have asked me for your info and all that I could say is, "It's Nick in the U.K. and she has some sheep." I'm not sure that that would be enough to track you down.
Anyway, glad that you are back. Oh, and do me a favor. Spare that little lamb his manhood.
Your Friend, m.