THE HUME CLAN!

And you thought we had hatched!...Well No we are descendants from 'apparently' Royalty!!! The Scottish Hume or used to be Home is a town in Scotland where we all come from apparently..Well I married into it but Pete is supposed to be from there!...There is so much history its hard to unravel really, but I did find 'The Hume clan badge' and 'The Hume coat of Arms', (above)...The coat of arms is quite something and what a motto...'True to the end!"...suits us just gfine!.., just in case you are remotely interested, or if there are any other Hume's out there that would like to shed some light on the ancestry!

WOODMILL IN THE SNOW...

Saving this for posterity!...Might never see snow like this again, it was so fluffy and quite surreal really, so here's a shot of Woodmill in the snow!

SNOWMEN!

Don't worry the snow entries are nearly over!!! The day wouldn't have been complete without a snowman, and as usual we went over the top here too, Me, Laura and Steven rolled the biggest snowball that we could until we could push it no further and then all looked at each other as if to say , well what now, how are we going to join them up! We rolled the fist one in position, then Pete got a scaffold plank to roll the other one up on the top...it was so heavy it took 4 of us to do it....finally in place and packed up...we only had one more to get on top!....Spring was helping..by eating the snow and rolling in it!!Finally after a lot of heaving and pushing we manged it, sticks for arms, pampas for a mouth and the odd stone for eyes and nose, it was about 8 or 9 foot high by the time we finished. A bit of hay thrown on his head for a hat or hair and bobs your uncle... A snowman!! shortly after this was taken...the ponies decided they wanted the hay and reared up to get it...knocking our masterpiece flying!!!

BUZZ AND BUBS AND SNOW!

Buzz was so cold so I had to give him a cuddle to warm him up to eat his breakfast, I think he was only playing me up as he was soon on the move.... The snow was almost as deep as him, Bubs didn't really know what was going on, she was a bit skittish, but ate and went back to bed!!!

FROM SNOWBALLS TO SLEDGING!

Snowballing came to an end... a cold wet chilly end!...So toboggans out and here we go, we slid on every slope we could find, the ponies joined in too, they ran up the hill with us and then scarpered as soon as we started to slide, the ponies were having great fun!...After a few hours up and down the slope I think we were all feeling the pain in our legs etc!!!!

SNOW DOG

Gem just chillin' taking in the surroundings and posing for the odd snap shot here and there!

KNEW THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE!

I just knew it wouldn't be long before it go out of hand here, Laura and Steven decided it was time for a snowball fight and that's where it got hairy!..I took this photo of a supposedly off shot snowball that hit me straight in the eye!!!!....

CHICKENS AND SNOW?

Hatty really didn't like the snow, she jumped out for breakfast, her feet hit the floor and she immediately sprung up into Pete's arms and came into our house in the warm for breakfast, the rest of the chickens just hid inside with only their heads appearing now and then.

DEDICATION!!!!

Now this is what I call dedication, Ant and Andy walked from Luxulyan to do our stonework....very grateful guys, nothing stops you pair does it...See that's what you get with us Cornish.....hardy folk!!

FEEDING

The kune kunes didn't really know what to make of the snow, they were quite strange, they had it all over them so I guess they enjoyed it, and the goats were tip toeing around in the white fluffy stuff, The ducks were funny though, the pond hadn't froze as much as it has done before and a couple of ducks went to walk across it. The ice started to crack and the ducks just froze to the spot and all of a sudden they fell through the ice, it seemed quite a shock for them, it was really funny to watch. The snow makes their feet look so much more orange than usual, especially the Aylesburys..they blend in the snow with their white bodies, so there are just orange feet everywhere!!