She's chillin'

We were thinking we would never get Bluebell in the stanchion given initial leading attempts... but we both had a couple of sessiins persuading her forward with food and then put a head collar on her and all of a sudden she let Doug lead her up the hill and then in to the stanchion. Who knows what changed since the rodeo failed attempts. The head collar? Although we had tried that before. Tying her head to a tree to get the nose clamp in convinced her we were the boss cows? She could sense Dougwas at the end of his tether?

Anyway, here she is just relaxing...

You can also see pipe Doug has put in behind the stanchion to help drainage.

Calf is due around Doug's birthday.

Apparently Islay has been in the stanchion too although didn't get her horns through the front bit yet...

Meanwhile I was having travel nightmare! This huge crowd is tring to get on the DLR. What is normally 25 min jouney took 2 hours because Jubilee line broke down. I was carrying a sink too! A tiny one for the new flat, but still pretty heavy. This is Tower Gateway DLR which is not normally anywhere near my route to work. I walked on to Shadwell where it was quieter - and I used to live as a student.