I thought we were going to level out on the male/female cria ratio but no, we are now at five girls and nine boys, oh dear. One was born today, a perfect day for it, but it must have been very early in the morning as when we got to the barn it was running around the field with a dry navel. Weighed all the cria today, the big ones that are over 25 kilos at around eight weeks old have slowed down to a kilo a week but the rest are still putting on two kilos a week. Can’t believe how hot it is after the incessant rain of the last fortnight, rapid search for T shirts.
We were glued to Coldplay at Glastonbury last night, they got the thumbs up from us and way better than U2. Chas was very taken with Noah and the Whale, a proper band he said approvingly while moaning about the crap sound mix. He gets very irritated when you can’t hear the other instruments at all. The director does a close up of mute instruments, great! Chas is obviously itching to get his hands on the mixing desk. We have vowed that we WILL go to Glastonbury next year. I started shouting at the television, clearly a grumpy old woman, when the presenter in the Hiawatha head band was interviewing some youth in culottes and wellies who said Man! at the end and beginning of every sentence whilst mangling the bits in between. Speak properly I cry, where is your grammar? Takes you right back to the hippie days.
Back in the barn I have mountains of fleece to grade. I was going to do some today but it is far too nice outside, I’m going to take photographs of alpacas instead. And I have to keep an eye on my incubator as the first chick has hatched and there is nothing better than watching these little dinosaurs emerge and turn into fluffballs.
Alex A –
We love Noah and the Whale! A bit depressing though 🙂
xxx
Dave –
Hang in there Rachel, next year is a ‘rest year’ for Worthy Farm, which they have every four, or so years, so the next one is 2013 – as one who was there this year, I thought U2 were fantastic, and then saw Coldplay, and agree they were even better – must be the twenty years difference, giving them the enthusiasm and freshness, and maybe the change in the weather. Elbow and Biffy Clyro were brilliant in different ways, but I was disappointed by Paul Simon – too many of his own songs that were unfamiliar. You’ll need to plan your birthings around the festival – but then you don’t need me to tell you that!
William –
Rachel,
Haven’t you heard that Michael Eavis is taking a holiday next year? So you’ll have to wait till 2013.
Glad Chas get’s riled by lousy sound mixing, drives me to complete distraction.
William