Shadow lands........

Scenes from our stroll

A few pictures I took when we took the dogs for their walk.......when you walk down to the pond now the grass is literally moving around you with frogs of all sizes...they all rush back towards the pond as you go nearer....Lloyd caught this little one for me to photograph......in the sunlight it was almost copper......quite beautiful.

The little white shed is actually the bus shelter...because it is so cold here in winter most acreages have a little shelter so the school children can stand in there waiting for the bus to pick them up from the end of the driveway.......I think ours is lovely....most of them tend to be shabby and ugly. I'd like to stencil plants around the bottom of ours one day....

The pretty old gate that is still standing behind Lloyds workshop...I plan to keep it simply for photographs over the years.......and the last picture is Rosie with the ball....she adores playing fetch and is quite brilliant at it...not like her big sister Amber...........Amber hasn't got a clue about retrieving!!! I think she's an Irish Setter in disguise......

Chicken feet

Don't chickens have the most enormous revolting feet??????

Here are some of our girls....soon to start laying.......they are such odd creatures...they just sit on thier roost and stare at you..........yet as soon as you go they wander around...you go in again and they stay still again...as if they are playing musical statues at a birthday party and the first one who moves is out! .......or roasted on Sunday lol!

Lloyd adores his chickens...as does Chris....these are very, very pampered chickens. But they aren't very bright ;)

Summer evening stroll with the dogs....

My girls Rosie and Amber in the front paddock this evening.......

Plant life.....

Some of the plants and flowers (and cuckoo spit) from our land today.....Lloyd hadn't heard of cuckoo spit before but I remember seeing it on nature walks as a child...it's created by little bugs as a protective layer during metamorphosis......in this top picture its hard to focus on it but it's the white bubbly stuff by the plant stem.......

Peony pleasures

Flowering at last......and they are stunning......

F-ant-astic!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128604.stm

We have Field Ant hills all over our land......they don't often come by the house so we haven't bothered to do anything about them......I find them facsinating.....and the article above shows just how amazing these creatures are at measuring distances....

.....maybe our house will cave in from all the ant tunnels under ground but ants sure are neat to study!!!

first impressions

Sometimes you meet people and you instantly feel comfortable with them...conversations flow easily and you just feel like you've met a new friend in this big old world......

And then there are those people that you meet and you just know you will never be friends...you feel uncomfortable, they 'rub you up the wrong way' (is that an English term????) and conversation is so hard......and you leave the situation feeling low....sometimes this happens with those you come across online and sometimes with those you meet in real life and sometimes both...but its most difficult to handle when you know you are going to cross each others paths again and again......

This has been a week where I have experienced both of the above......and I certainly know which situation I prefer ;)

How ironic

"Our third workshop will be held in May titled " Here there are dragons” .
Using Schema focused methods for challenging childhood/traumatic life traps or
resistant behaviour

" .

So The Farmhouse Therapy Centre recently held the above workshop.....hmmmm its about issues adults have that date back to childhood experiences......hhhmmmm

http://www.farmhousetherapycentre.co.uk/home.htm

interesting.....

And how funny that it was run by the owner of this therapy centre......my EX...the same ex that has not spoken to his children since Xmas 02...the very same Ex who hasn't seen his children since September 02...and then was late to come and pick them up because he didn't get out of bed on time........the same ex that lives in a half a million pound farmhouse and can honeymoon in the Caribbean and visit NYC regularly to see his Mom but can't come a few hours further to see his own children.....he doesn't send letters, doesn't email, doesn't phone....they sometimes get birthday cards and a little money...sometimes not...it's a guessing game for the children....maintenance hasn't been reliable lately......even though he pays a lot less than he really should...

He's 'curing' clients who were treated this way by their fathers....and they are paying hundreds for the privilege........can't he see that he's doingt he same thing to his own children?????

How ironic is that???????

And I bet none of his clients have a clue what their therapist is really like......ah but of course they all probably believe his wicked ex wife 'stole' his children away from him! That I won't allow contact.......he even has his new wife fooled...doesn't she wonder why he doesn't maske any effort to see his children????

Irony...what a funny thing it is........