Silkie chicks are hatched!

silkie warmth hovering over chicks mother hen ____________________________________________________ Congratulations on the chicks! Edgar Allen Poe is the proud strutting father; Snowy is the doting mother; and miraculously we have 5 new Chinese Silkie chicks. On Sunday Tessa went to check on Snowy who was sitting on her clutch of eggs in the coop. Well what […]

National Alpaca Week

Yes, it is that time of the year again National Alpaca Week 2013 This is the week that you can visit your local alpaca farm in Australia; and being the proud owners of two Suri alpaca we thought we would go and have a looksee at the place where Spirit and Merlin were born (Ivory […]

Alpaca Love

Two male alpacas (desexed) have come to live with us here in the Elysian fields Spirit and Merlin are inseparable (a macho smoochy smooch) Look at those lips on Merlin! They remind me of the pushmi-pullyu critter from Dr Doolittle ____________________________________________________________

Psychologist Discovers Cure for Depression – Ducklings!

In the news for the day, less than eminent psychologist Dr Gabrielle Crook has discovered the cure for depression When faced with this prescribe one or more ducklings Note: Please consult with your own psychologist or doctor before following this advice from a Quack _______________________________________________________________ nuddernote – top duckling is Zachary Quack and haven’t got […]

It Never Rains but it Pours

It Never Rains but it Pours! What a fitting expression ‘it never rains but it pours’. Today we can take it literally. We’ve gone from months of little rain (even though it’s summer; and here in the sub-tropics we usually get most of our rain in the summer) and a great risk of wild fire; […]

Fast Forward

Fast Forward I feel like the movie of my life is on fast forward. I’m watching The Mentalist on Monday and then I’m watching The Mentalist on Monday and I don’t know what happened to the week in between. The only thing happening slowly is the arrival of the furniture – bit by bit in […]