Wednesday 26 December 2012
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| Won't it be nice if she breed this year! |
Its Boxing day, I have full charge of all
livestock, dogs, horse, birds! So most of the mornings are taken up with
feeding checking and so on. This is the first time I have done it in a long
time, Simon never seemed to go much for Christmas and so he would feed the
birds in the morning on Christmas day, shoot off to see family and be back by
the evening, but he left working here on Christmas Eve, so I have got the job.
Actually I like it, it means I can check things, probably why no one likes me
to do it. I already have a list of things to be fixed or put right and I have
found some interesting things on the studwork in the corridors, we certainly
have a good mixture of screws!!! And eggs!!! I did not dare drop any of them as
I suspect there would have been a loud bang and a very bad smell. Still never
mind, new regime in place as of Jan 2nd 2013, which I am praying
will be a drought year!!! There can’t be more rain after New Year – can there??!!
I had my Christmas party on Christmas Eve,
for friends and locals, it is the third year and it seems to be popular, but
what a difference from two years ago when it was freezing cold, snow on the
ground and ice all over the car park, this year I had to open doors as the
fires in the sitting room and my office had made the house too warm!!! The
trees looked lovely, the house lends itself to entertaining – although I only
do it once a year! Most of the food went and everyone seemed to have a good
time – same time same place next year!!
We finished our last two owl evenings on
Fri and Sat and amazingly got away with the weather which I did not think was
possible looking at the forecast. One audience was great the other was not!!
The birds did very well and the lights just about held out, but only just with
the wet ground. We are going to have to do something about them before
February. The owls are now off duty until the last week in Jan when they all
need to get going again for opening on February 1st.
We will tackle the flats at the start of
January, as well as getting the last of the major cleaning done, we are close
to being ready for the breeding season already. I had a look in the flats
today, there is a fair bit to do to get them back to how they were in early
2009! Out with the magnolia paint I think, I was disappointed to see that
someone has painted the nice pine stairs and banisters, that is a great shame,
and difficult to undo.
The weather yesterday, although wet to
start with turned lovely as I fed round, the sun came out and birds began to
sing, it was a real treat after all this grey dull light that we have lived
with for weeks now. Now sadly we are back to rain again, what a surprise. I do
feel so sorry for those poor people living close to water and watching it rise
to threaten or flood their homes.
Ah well, better take the dogs out for a run,
which means putting Leaf on a lead, I think I am going to have to find a good
home for her, because out with the pack she is pretty difficult to manage.
Holly has taken her home for a weekend occasionally and she is so much better
on her own, she is also chasing birds, which is not good news for us here.
All the birds up at Duncombe are settled
and doing well and the birds that we have moved around here are also settled,
even the new Golden Eagles seem to have settled and the White-backed Vultures
as well. Here is praying for a dry 2013!
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