Depressingly the company I bought tickets from for a Leonard Cohen concert has ceased trading. I was really looking forward to it especially as Tom and Alex were going to come too. It also meant I had to spend many happy hours attempting to get through to the relevant part of Barclaycard to get a refund. They are useless. But we did have some fun yesterday when we went to pick up the new black car. It is the shiniest car on the farm – not for long I fear. We paid for it with our Switch cards which was quite fun – an awful lot of money disappearing in a flash. The car has also had two services as the man at the garage was not sure, did it anyway, then the sevice book arrived and he found it had been serviced a week earlier. The oil is VERY clean.
We came back to find a new dark fawn female cria by Tulaco Centurion tottering about. Our girl ratio is getting better. She’s a big girl but we decided to keep her in overnight as the weather is still dreadful.
Despite the rain there are loads of butterflies in the garden, Peacock, Painted Lady, Red Admiral and of course the dreaded Cabbage White. Last year I spent five minutes every morning and evening removing the caterpillars from my Purple Sprouting and hurling them into the field only to find the alpacas scrumping it all in the autumn. I shall try harder this year. We are picking beans now and courgettes – the ones that haven’t rotted on the plant that is with all this rain. Chas’s beetroot are coming along. I pick some every few days and the row is thinning out nicely. He boils them up and has private beetroot eating moments. The rest of us can’t stand them.
Tom A –
Poor Chazza, eating beetroots secretly like an exile! If I were there I would share them with you Chas, we love beetroot!