Active day - In Doug's words

I have stolen Doug's words from an email to describe today as I am a bit knackered and cannot think of my own (I got up earlier than usual to give someone a lift to the airport)! Thanks Doug!

Exciting day today. Made hard standing/limited grass area for Daisy-horse this morning. Then we were moving the sheep off the drive (mainly to make it easier to get Daisy out for rides) when our new cow turned up! She is extremely cute.

Some friends turned up almost simultaneously to meet Daisy, so we bunged the cow in with the sheep, admired her for a while, went and admired Daisy for a while then settled down to tea & cakes on the lawn (its almost like summer here!). I then noticed that the cow was no longer still in the enclosure with the sheep... She led us a merry dance all over our neighbour's fields trying to recapture her! Poor thing in a strange new place, no mummy, strange people chasing her! Luckily cow-man had told us to leave the head collar & lead rope on her so eventually I managed to get close enough to step on the rope & recapture her... Phew! She is now in the orchard - it has permanent deer fences all around, not flimsy powered-off elec fencing!

 Then (after more tea & cake of course) we tacked up Daisy & sent a friend off on her for a ride (she is very horsey & came to see Daisy on our first trip there) while the rest of us & dog walked along behind. She loved her & thinks she is a very nice ride too. All v tiring, but have now retired to the sofa with a glass of vin sauvage.