DIXIE TRAINING HER BABIES

Dixie is really doing well, the piglets go to their new homes hopefully this week, obviously weather dependant now! But she is teaching them snow ploughing techniques and how to roll a snowball, they love the snow, I forgot the camera and only got these two shots but they were so funny, could have watched them for hours....If you don't find these seriously cute you got a screw loose!

BUZZ IN A RUSH TO EAT!

I think Buzz must have been in such a rush he forgot to get out of bed and brought it with him, he was last out, he must have panicked and thought he may have missed breakfast....What am I going to do with him!

PETE V PIZZA

At the grand age of 52 you would think Pete knows what a pizza looks like or is!... however he kindly offered to make us pizza bread for lunch which Laura and I have as a treat on a Saturday....and make Pete some, so it was his turn to sort!... Its just arrived and made me laugh... he had kind of melted cheese and then put some tomatoe puree on the top instead of the bottom and it looks kind of odd, but thanks..odd is what I expect...thanks:)

YOU GOT TO HAVE A LANTERN!

Every time it snows I take a picture of LANTERN AS IT REMINDS ME OF OLD CHRISTMAS CARDS, EXCEPT MY LANTERN IS PLASTIC AND SOLAR POWERED AND THE ONES I AM TALKING ABOUT ARE METAL AND OIL FILLED.....still its the thought that counts!!!...I dont know whats up with my keyboard but it went into capitals and I can't alter it...sorry about that, snow must have got in the brains of my computer...or maybe its me...no surely not!

FINE FIGURES OF DOGS!

Gem, Lucky and Shadow are having a great time in the snow, you can see them posing in their individual way above, Gem causing trouble and looking like she just ate someone, Lucky not letting anyone have that Xmas tree toy at any cost! and Shadow pretending she has got a brain under all that fur and that she is is control, neither of which I am convinced of! But we love her all the same....I wonder if thats what people say about me!!!.....now where is PETE!!!!

WORK STOPS ON DRIVE

Due to the weather....god if I had a pound for every time that has been said to me... I am sure some of them haven't even got snow that are saying it!!!! Our fields are frozen so we have had to stop work on our driveway, it will look good once it has been landscaped and blended it ....it just needs a bit of poetic licence and imagination. But it will be better for us, giving us a private entrance to the house and access to the feed store and ponies, at the moment it is really difficult for the feed to be delivered and if we have a sick pony it really difficult to load so this should sort that problem out.

BRUCEY BABE!

Bruce is a fine specimen of a scraggy ol' rooster.....I said Bruce not Pete...only kidding!! Bruce was in fine form in the snow preaching to all the others telling them whats what and what to do...Hes a right one all scraggy around the edges with an attitude from hell....mmm now what was I saying....

OUR PET ROUGH LEGGED BUZZARD

This buzzard is really a pet or a guest maybe, he lives here and seems quite tame, living up above in our woods and perching on the pig stys when he wants a chat. Quite a handsome fellow eh! Took this photo out of Stevens bathroom window.

DEREK AND JAN MUST THINK I AM NUTS!

After a phone call trying to book a cottage and being told we were stuck in snow and cut off in Chichester, Derek and Jan must despair...then I get home to book their cottage and holiday, left a message on their answerphone ...something about snowmen and skiving!!....and then they ring to confirm and I have to tell them to wait as Steven has an elastic band around his legs and is stuck!...Don't ask....Sorry guys but thanks for coming to visit us yet again...you wouldn't like it anywhere else...its the madness that draws you here honest!!!!

HERES TO 2010!!!

And there goes another year....in a flash we'll be there again!!! Now we need to get our heads down and focused on whats in store for the New Year. For me it holds " How many scams can I get away with until Pete kills me" and for Pete its "A race against time to see if he can get one step ahead and stop the mayhem!"...No seriously he makes as much trouble as me, he's always getting us in the cart and my speciality is up the creek without a paddle!.. So another exciting year is in store at "Ye 'ol Woodmil!" Wonder what will happen.......