what have I been doing

Time has marched by and I am so behind with this blog I forgot my password!! anyway Easter has come and gone and we have all eaten too much chocolate and fudge, keep trying to perfect the fudge recipe and not burn it, but you do have to eat the mistakes. We are also eating a lot of banana cake - very good.
Since the last blog the girls have been injected against blue tongue and have forgiven us thank goodness and will have to been given another injection next week. Thank goodness they are good natured. We also have a first draft of the front page of our web site for The English Alpaca Company - very exciting, so will be on line very soon. Got some fleeces to take to the mill and turn into beautiful wool, duvets etc. some are last years fleeces from our girls and very good they are too.
The frosts have stopped (bound to get one tonight now) and the mange tout, broad beans and squashes have been planted out in one of the raised beds, the rabbits have not found them yet, but I am sure we will be supplying them as well as ourselves. they seem to be Ok at the moment, but because we did not think about it before, having to carry water to beds in buckets as no tap and the hose is not long enough!! Also planted some poppies, cornflowers, verbina in the front garden and will put the wild flower seeds in this week, a lot easier to water them.
Tonight great excitment as we came up from feeding the girls we spied a tiny little moorhen chick on the pond, so the heron will have to be chased out of the garden for a little while until it is big enough to get out of the way. The trees are all beginning to bud, the grass is covered with bullrush seeds which look like little furry animals running about being chased by the bats which have also appeared to eat the insects which gather beside the hedge. Life is getting very busy and the garden is full of life getting ready for a great summer.