Down on the Farm

The great thing about the  school holidays, is that there always seems to be an extra day, just to enjoy.

We got back from France on Sunday, and as school didn't start until Tuesday we had a 'spare' day.  One of my daughter's friends lovely Mummy (or should that read Mom, she is a New Yorker) suggested a visit to a local farm and we met her and another Mummy along with a gaggle of children, at 11am.

And the sun shone!  We had the most delightful time, there were new born lambs and a very young calf, there were donkeys and goats to pet.  There was a fantastic playground.

I brought a very tired, but very happy little girl home, and once she was asleep I got on with sewing name tapes into her new summer uniform!

I'm not adding captions to these photographs, as I think they speak for themselves.

I will catch up with everyone's blogs over the next few days, it's dreadful how quickly I get behind, I am sorry.

Goats and Donkeys - the delights of a rural seaside home!

I've shown you some photos of our lovely dove Cutie Pie.

We see lots of doves here, so we're not a hundred percent sure which one is Cutie Pie, but I'm sure she's around and will be back to visit us in the summer.

When we popped into Roscoff for lunch last week, a woman was walking her goats on a lead down the main street!

I asked if I could take a photograph, and she agreed.  One goat nearly posed, but turned around at the last minute, the other swerved out of the frame, but here they are in all their glory.

On Saturday as we set off for the shops and I was helping my daughter into the car, I heard an "ee-ore" and said to her: "I can hear a donkey!"

We drove along the road, and there, outside a neighbours' garage was the cutest, fluffiest donkey I've ever seen!  He was happily munching the long grass and looked so sweetly through his long fringe as we stopped to take a photograph.

Don't you think he's cute!

(Now a donkey is added to my wish list, along with the dovecote, my dogs, some hens - I've wanted to collect my own eggs  for years - a pony for my little girl and a horse for me, not much to ask!  But certainly never going to work in Richmond and Brittany!)