York Steiner School Advent fair

I will be having a stall at the above event this Saturday 25th November from 10 til 4. I will be in Jane Schaffer's ceramics studio rather than the main school hall. Look forward to seeing people there!

Pop Up Butchers Shop Date Change

Please note that the pop-up butchers shop this month will now be held on 18th November NOT 25th as previously advertised.
There will be Bacon and Gammon available this month in addition to the sausages and pork, lamb and mutton.

Autumn Fruits

Had a bit of time today to take some pictures of the Autumn fruits in our hedgerows. A very abundant year for Hawthorn and Sloes but the blackberries seem to be mostly rotting rather than ripening. I will add in the crab apples when I next go to that part of the field!

Green Acorns

Blackberries

Hawthorn berries

Wild rose hips

Sloes

Brimham Rocks day out

Time flies when you are having fun (or just very busy!). Now the children are back at school I can catch up on blogging etc! During the summer holidays we had a lovely day out at Brimham Rocks, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The children had a rock climbing taster session. The son was up like a spider until his lack of height meant he couldn't reach the next holds! The daughter was more cautious and reach wasn't a problem but long legs and bony knees proved a challenge too! They both thoroughly enjoyed it and want to do more.

After the taster session we explored the rest of the site and played around on the fantastic rock formations.

Colour co-ordinated!

A new strata!

In a bit of a hole!

Let's see if I can push it off!

Peek-a-boo!

York Steiner School Spring Fair

I will be at the York Steiner School Spring Fair tomorrow, 13th May. The School is on Fulford Cross (off Fulford Road) in York, YO10 4PB. The fair is open from 11 am to 4 pm.

I am taking some of the sheep and lambs as well as all my woolly stuff so do come and see me!

More info at www.yorksteinerschool.org

Catching up with more lambs

Bit of catching up to do! Here are 5 more ewes with their lambs. The first is Nicola with her fawn katmoget ram lamb relaxing on the bales.

The second is Serena with her moorit ewe lamb

Next is clover with her twin Charollais cross lambs, one ewe, one ram.

Then Billerhowe Moorit had twins, again Charolllais cross but this time they were both black! Both are ram lambs.

Lastly for this batch, Tessa had twin moorit ewe lambs.

Nearly there - 3 more ewes have lambed and I'll put them on the blog tomorrow. 4 left to lamb (if they are going to as I'm not certain they are in lamb).

Triplets and twins x 2

Three more ewes have given birth. Our unregistered Shetland gave birth to Charolais cross twins on Tuesday. They are both mostly white, one ewe, one ram.

Last night we had quite an eventful evening. Two ewes were lambing at the same time on opposite sides of the barn! Our Soay cross ewe needed quite a bit assistance as she had two ENORMOUS Charolais cross lambs, both rams. They are definitely the biggest lambs we have ever had!

The other ewe was April (Shetland) who had been looking uncomfortable and huge for several days. It turns out she was carrying triplets!!!! She also needed quite a bit of help as two of them were coming head first but with the legs tucked back. This was both of the rams lambs(!), the ewe lamb was fine. All three are grey katmogets, the two rams are slightly different shades of grey and the ewe has a bit of white on the top of her head. We are monitoring them to see if April manages to feed them all or if we will need to supplement them with bottle milk.

'Three! that wasn't what I wanted!'