It has been a couple of weeks since I have had a chance to catch my breath and think about everything that has happened and is still to happen...what a whirl! Here is some of it...
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| Hagley Primary incubated ducklings |
Out in the garden we have has some new duckling introduced - they were incubated by Hagley Primary school. what we find is that the earlier eggs are incubated from here the higher the hatch rate, so they were delighted that they got 4 lovely little ducklings - 3 white (or yellow at this point) and 1 mixed (might have some appleyard in it). The Children named the ducklings Aggi, Goldfinger, Sunny and Andy (after Andy Murray!). They kept them for a week or so but as they were getting ready for holidays they soon came here to be looked after. Unfortunately Sunny (laying down in picture) had something not quite right in his chest and he did not develop properly, we gave him the best life we could but he died in his sleep one night. The others are all really well and are always hungry. The children have made them really tame too!
We had a brilliant turn out in the gardens for a lot of very different animals on 21st July - the fund raiser for the Cinnamon trust was a great day - here are a couple of photos - there are a lot more on our
Facebook Album .
We had Ferrets, Alpacas, lots of dogs who went in for the novelty dog show, tried the agility course and some even ran the scurry. There were guide dogs, cat protection, birds of prey (we kept out of their way!) and lots more. It was great fun and the day raised over £2,000 for the charity (which aims to keep people with their pets for as long as possible by supporting them when they are ill or incapacitated).
Also 2 weeks ago we had a really beautiful country wedding party in the garden. We have known Jenna dna Ross for a while now and were delighted that they shared their special day with us. They had a small wedding party of close friends and family to their picnic style meal in the garden marquee next to the bottom pond. Jenna had done a lot of work making the whole thing look lovely and very 'country'. She also made a
Piñata for the children which contained sweets.
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| A play area for the children with Piñata |
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| Beautifully decorated with bunting all home made! |
The whole thing was beautiful including the weather, the bride and groom looked wonderful too. After the afternoon party they moved into the restaurant for an evening party with more friends arriving.
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| Jenna and Ross arrive |
I am finishing with another bird story - this time pigeons! On the night of the wedding we had a racing pigeon drop in - he/she looked exhausted and hungry so we gave it some of our corn. We could not quite see the tag properly but we think it is going to Italy. It stayed for over a week before moving on - we are not convinced it will win the race with this length of stop over but who knows! A day after it left we had another one stop over for 2 days too - we think we have got onto a new website - 'Pigestops' -- we are already on one called Britstops which is for humans with motor homes (they are great visitors!)
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| Pige 1 |
