DO YOU KNOW THE NAME??

We have hundreds of these mushrooms at the moment, they are bigger than my hand! They look edible???? Anyone know?

JUST FOUND THESE

I had forgotten I took these pictures, after living here for 5 years we had never discovered what was literally 200 yards away.... a beautiful bluebell wood, just across the next road. Mind you we hardly ever get out so unless its in our field we probably wouldn't see it!!! But its really stunning. Its up a massive incline which I nearly died walking up....ok so a little exaggeration there, but I cant breathe as well as Pete as my heart is a bit dickey, but no sympathy from Pete up that hill we went at 100 mile an hour just to make sure I was quiet I reckon!!! Worth it at the top though, when my eyes stopped whizzing and I could breathe again  ha ha

OMG A SKUNK!

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a pet shop had skunks for sale as pets! This isn't a very good picture as i only had my phone, but this little guy is a baby skunk and is the most cuddly thing ever. They cannot be caged they live as cats and dogs do in the home but you cant let them out without you as they will just wander and not return as they don't have a sense of home like normal animals...weird?!Apparently they don't spray unless they feel their life is threatened. They had a big one there called billy and he was like a huge ball of fluff. I couldn't believe my luck to hold a baby skunk, he didn't smell at all and I now look and think of them in a whole new light!...Mind you the only contact I had with a skunk was in the film Bambi!!! SO hey what do I know!!!

THE PHANTOM POPPADOM PINCHER!

Shadow will eat anything, well anything except what she is meant to. She loves all the rubbish and you cant leave anything on the worktop as Shadow surfs them to see whats fair game in her eyes! This time she had a poppadom. Mind you don't go much on the concealment, inconspicuous isn't really her strong point eh!I think the most expensive thieving was a huge joint of pork for christmas, but she waited until I cooked it and it was just right, then another time was 4 dozen buns left on the top to cool just while I put the chickens in by the time I got back up they had been shadowed and a few papers remained!

HOPE SMUDGE IS HAPPY SOMEWHERE

Smudge (on the right) went missing in May time and after a month we finally found her, she had made a home with some children and lived in a stable with a horse, she seemed fine when we picked her up and took her home, she seemed really pleased to be back really cuddly then about 6 weeks later she just vanished, so thinking she may have gone back to the children we asked but no one had seen her, we looked for weeks but no luck, she is a very good hunter so wouldn't really need to be fed to survive unlike smurf in the left of the picture, who needs food put right in front of him with a napkin almost! I just hope where ever she is that she is happy and safe.

CHALLENGE ME AND LAURA!! BACK TO UNI!

Its that time again when the bags need to be packed for the move back to uni, I think she is home a lot more than away though they have a lot of time off, which is good in a way as Laura gets to help here....shes really glad about that!!! Well the packing of the car started on Wednesday ready for the off at 8am Thursday morning. It was just me and Laura as Pete and Steve had to be in Bath for golf. Typical all the same day...mind you wouldn't have got anyone else in our cars we were full to the roof tops!... Left and battled through the heavy traffic to Chichester just in time for key collection from the landlord at 1pm. He arrived and told us all the bits and bobs and how he had cleaned it thoroughly, all I am going to say is I hope he doesn't ever open a holiday cottage business!!! I have the rubbish in my car to prove it!...But saying that the house does have a nice feel to it and Laura will whip it into shape when she gets there. It has a nice little back garden and shed for the bike and a shared front grass area, there are a few young children around so that gives it a nice feel, quite safe. Well Landlord left and we knew we had to be on a mission if we were going to get back in one day. The car was parked a little way away so that made things harder, keep locking cars and lifting ridiculously heavy boxes and pianos,...yeap pianos!!!!...We made sure we had a key in our hand to the house so we didn't get locked out. The one key that Laura choose as it had a pretty colour top!!!! didn't fit the lock did it. So now we are outside her new house locked out in the middle of chichester. We had no choice but to call the landlord back from Maidenhead to sort it! Nightmare, he had to go cut new keys and then we started again. Before we moved in we had to remove the rubbish and items from around the house. We then started the long unpack!!!... We were going on really well, then I thought, best hoover up a bit, plugged the hoover in and after 2 minutes it caught on fire so we chucked it out the front door to save everything, didn't have the nerve to ring landlord again so just stuck a dangerous sticker on it and thought email him later!!.... Ill try to shorten the story, then no kettle or anything so thought check out the cooker and the knob came off and couldn't turn the gas  ring off, panicking by now finally managed to turn off!! No CO2 alarm so have to sort that too with landlord. got smoke alarms though....managed to get into the leaky shed to put the bike away that has a combination lock so should be ok to remember that!... Then used the loo and flush didn't work....meanwhile all the tooing and froing unpacking car then up the stairs  we thought best get food to leave for Laura, which was a mammoth task! as we walked out the front door and it slammed behind us, with our keys to car and phones inside the house...We were really in trouble now, no record of the number for landlord, no phone, no car....oh man we will be in trouble....So after running around shouting for a while and then trying to get a ladder to see if any windows were open we finally got someone to lend us a key of their house in the hope it might just help jiggle the lock.....But then we remembered the back door locks from the inside but maybe we hadn't turned the thumbscrew properly.....and after figuring out how to get to the back door, we got in ...phew......off to shop......unpack and then remove rubbish for journey home, By that time we were really tired and tried to put TV in car but I cant bend and lift, I can do one or the other! so got it stuck half way in car, so Laura tried to save me by crawling under it, so now her legs were across the pavement and body half in the car with head under a TV, it must have looked so funny anyway long story.....got her out and off we went to eat briefly and get home.....Just as we thought our day couldn't get much worse the train line barriers came down, when we were short of time, and not one train but 3  at 5 min intervals came leisurely trucking by.... I was loosing will to live by then!!! Got home midnight, I have missed out lots but you get the gist!!! The house doesnt look that big but has four beds rented out and communual lounge/kitchen which as you can see by the post its laura has organised everyone....well no one else bothered to turn up so I think she did really well and organised all the broadband/tv licence bills etc, best the others pay, or a visit from yours truely might happen and they wouldnt want that now would they!!!

PAMPER SHADOW!

Shadow decided in her wisdom to go in the big bad sticky buds and was covered head to toe in them! It was time for a brush, after wrestling her to the ground as she thought it was a game I finally managed to make head way. She tried to catch the brush, my arm, she even tried to scoot around in a circle on the floor to chase her tail whilst laid down.  Then I figured out a miracle, ....if I held her hand or paw if you like to call it! and stroked her paw whilst brushing her she fell asleep!! Now that's weird, going from manic to trans like state in a minute! I think I survived the ordeal!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE

Laura and I made a jacuzzi cake this year for Pete, with cats floating in rings and flowers, tortoises, ladybirds, butterflies and dogs sitting at the base! I don't think he knows what to expect next really, but lovely cake, we didn't have a birthday do as such this year but took Pete to see an outdoor theatre group at Trelissick gardens, it was really good, we took a picnic and blankets etc, worth seeing. Back to work now , no rest for the wicked eh!

AT THE MO

Just organising things for the mill to start. We have ordered the wood for the base of the summer house, we had prices in for building it, but really cant afford it so, team Pete and Michelle are building it, we will be digging the rest of the base this weekend hopefully if it stops raining!...Actually when has that ever stopped us!!! Andy & Ant are booked in to move the stables beginning of Sept and Jamie is on stand by to disconnect the electrics first week in October so we don't kill ourselves when we take the internal block walls out!!Oh and Richard to disconnect the water supply, then its down to us to take all the furniture out and gut it, that's going to take quite some time, as we will be building the car port and garage at the same time oh and summerhouse...oh and working to pay for it!!!! We have a lot of things to source and organise its a big project and we are working on it on the computer every waking hour away from work. daylight will be a distant memory soon!... I thought I would just update things as I am sat here waiting for the ruddy gas man who never comes at the time he says, plus its raining and Shadow is trying to get in the office, but through the glass window so must dash eh!!!

HELP!

On a wobbly day, some days are ok and some just need to be forgotten, I had one of those days yesterday!!  maybe when I slow down a bit and it catches up with me, mmmm have to rethink my speed!! Pete reckons if we go any faster we will be done before we start!!! Now theres a thought!!!