It’s warm and wet here now, so ideal conditions for the evening scourge of midges. But GS has a new method of avoiding them when he is filling the horses’ drinking trough – he calls me over to watch the water level whilst he hides inside Rufus.

Expert Forester Celebrates a Significant Milestone
So we bought him a hamper of sweeties from the Seventies – who remembers refreshers, love hearts and popping candy? Only us oldies lol.

The family vet came to visit, and showed off Hamish’s new skill of scent trailing. GSS hid in the hay shed and Hamish found him really quickly, clever boy.










The rest of the people and animals on the farm are doing well. The Assasin is still better trained than Doofus.

I went for a walk through a local estate and found they had diversified into boar. One of them tried to follow me home.
