Off Topic Away from football....

To keep it on topic, I sometimes drink gin while watching football.

 

I like my G&T with a slice of cucumber!

 

Another atmospheric sunset yesterday evening.
Always nice to spend a few minutes enjoying the scenery after completing the chores asigned by our daughter.

 

Just watching the quiz 'only connect'.
Its the one quiz that hurts my head. Other quizzes are ok in that I know the answer or I don't.
With this thing, I struggle with the questions. Very tenuous or derived.

Anyway, linking it with football, the Welsh sports reporter Tom Parry-Jones is the captain of one of the teams.

 

Worth watching Only Connect if only for the voluptuous ( a word not heard on our Not606 page before) and very intelligent Victoria Coren-Mitchell. How did David Mitchell pull her?

And the programme is filmed in Cardiff. Enfys is the production company.

I get very few questions right but watching and listening to Victoria makes it good!!!

 

Just loading the car up to head to stafford for a week of farm sitting.
Mam in a local care home for the week. Its the same one she went to in the summer. Most of the staff recognised her and welcomed her back, which was nice.

So, Daughter and partner off to Aintree for a horse show for 4 days. Theyre going up tomorrow afternoon, back on sunday night.
Daughter showing one of her horses and grooming for a couple clients, so she'll be paid for being there.

So its down to me and Mrs Remote to look after the animals. 59 calves on milk, another 16 weanlings, 90ish sheep, 3 collies, two cats, 3 horses and 2 fox hound pups. Hadnt bargained on the last two, but hardly a big increase.

Their new kitchen started being installed yesterday. We're hoping it wont take long to finish or itll be the microwave, air fryer and pub to see us through.

 

Forget the microwave and air fryer.


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

So, how do you rear the fox pups without them becoming domesticated, or is that the intention?

 

Fox hounds BT, fox hounds.

 

Ahh right, thank you.

 

The first evening. Daughters partner keeping an eye on me. Interpreting the hand held computer telling you who's drank how much is the fun bit.
Sam the dog keeping an eye on things,

 

Is this one of those cases where the dog knows what to do and your job is to feed the dog?

 

It feels like that sometimes.
I know my place in the pecking order.

 

So, back after a week on the farm.
Slept the sleep of the dead last night.
Stepped on the scales this morning and 3lbs lighter than when I went.
Ive told them to advertise farm labourer breaks on health club sites. They could get people to pay them to look after their animals.

The farmhouse is in a great setting. Nearest neighbours are about 200 yards away.

No light polution.
You lie in bed at night, eyes open or closed its no different.