31. March 2010 by admin.

The clinic is over and everyone has left.  As much as I love the farm being busy I also love it when it is quiet.  Mags and I took Monty (her black lab), Léo and Cookie out for a lovely walk across the fields in between the rain showers.  They had a fantastic time romping together as up until recently we would keep either Monty or Léo on the lead in case they disappeared together.  Monty’s recall is now more reliable and now Léo is maturing he is less distracted by the behaviour of other dogs and pays little attention to Monty when he is busy searching for pheasants in the hedgerows.   I am getting everything ready for my trip to South Africa as I leave on the 14th for two weeks.  It is busy in South Africa but I could only promise two weeks when plans were finalised in January as I have too many work commitments here.  Tina will be going out to teach the third week so we won’t see each other for over three weeks.  That will be a bit strange.  Even though Tina only works for four days at Tilley Farm (aside from the times that she assists on the clinics) she is here with her own horses every day and also sees her private clients here so it all seems rather quiet when she and her dog Sally are absent from the farm for any length of time. 

Have snugged the bunnies in bed early, brought the donkeys in early too as the weather is GRIM and will head home now to walk my other dogs and feed the other donkeys and pony.

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31. March 2010 by admin.

Tropical Inc came to visit us again today as part of our second Companion Animal Practitioner Training Clinic.  The lovely Steve brought some baby chicks, along with meerkats, two skunks, bearded dragons, a pygmy hedgehog, snakes, tarantulas, a hawk, a snapping turtle, a macaw, and the gennet. I love the gennet.  The chicks all fell asleep whilst people were doing TTouches on them. Seemed very appropriate to have them here as Easter is approaching.  Léo decided to escape from the garden in the afternoon and had a lovely time greeting people and dogs at the end of the clinic.  He behaved beautifully and came back the moment I called him so the months of hard work using TTouches and the clicker have definitely paid off.  Some dogs are somewhat challenging during the adolescent period but if you keep calm, stay focused and are consistent in your handling and training they usually mature into calm and well mannered adults. 

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31. March 2010 by admin.

We are all missing Fish.  His companion, Flash, is adapting better than we had hoped and we will pair him up with another horse soon once the weather has improved a little. He needs to be in at night as he is old as well and its soooo cold and wet here.  Have started clipping out the fluffy bunny though.  She has amazing hair but it is so fine the winter weather does cause it to matt.  We clip and trim her regularly and now it is a little warmer I have started to remove the dead hair with the help of Jon who is now Chief Bunny Clipper as well as Indoor School Builder.  Kick boards are almost done in the arena. I think Jon and Jason have used over 7,000 nails and 2 km of wood so far. 

Tony is in his final week of Six Degrees of Separation.   We will have Sunday together and that will be it for a while.  He films Merlin in Wales for two days before heading out to France on Wednesday.  My sister and our nephews are going to go with him.  I won’t be going as will be filming the auditions for Toto for Over the Rainbow.  As much as I would love to go to France with my family I actually think I will be having the most fun out of us all.  Can’t wait.

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31. March 2010 by admin.

It was my birthday yesterday and Emily and I went to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Hilarious and the perfect Birthday show.  I now feel the need to redecorate our house with pink furnishings and glitter balls but not convinced it would fit with a Regency property.  

We all stayed in London over night and went to see the matinee of Jerusalem.  It has to be the best play I have ever seen.  Totally outstanding. Thought provoking, moving, funny and superbly acted.  Tickets are hard to come by but if you can get one - go.  You won’t be disappointed.  Truly superb.

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