What are you all up to

One of our dogs was ready named with a name that didn't sound too good when he escaped into a big fairground one evening. The name came from the elfin kingdom, beloved by his previous elderly owner. 

Just watching the news and it now appears that we up here in Scotland will be falling into line with the rest of you this week. Travel restrictions etc relaxed and allowed out more. So glad it is getting really hard now and to be honest the place has for very busy here now anyway we live across from the beach and last night it was very busy. Keep looking out the window at the caravan sitting on the drive hoping to be out in it soon still we are occupying ourselves by doing research on lots of areas we haven’t victors before that hopefully we can get it later in the year.

Oh and the sun has just came out :) 

We used to have a  not just the milkman filling our jugs from his churns in the back of his pre war van    and the baker  with his big wicker basket full of bread/rolls and sometimes cakes ,plus of course the coalman with sacks on his back, there used to be a communal "pig bin"for food scraps and the dustmen carried each house dustbin on their backs

Those  were when we did not have the "problems ?" of elf and safety and other ways of spoiling things

yet another beautiful day here,

I've lost count how many days there has been since it rained!

went to the shop this morning, took the car thought I might as well top up the fuel tank the local garage owner was surprised to see me, I then realised that I hadn't put petrol in the car for nearly 3 months instead of 3 times a week!

while OH was shopping, took bramble for a walk along the old rail line. As the council havn't been out cutting grass or strimming, being Portland stone  and working Quarries the ground is normally barren like a wasteland however, the wild flowers have taken over and it is very pretty even on the roadside verges. I hope it stays this way.

a couple of pictures of the walk, enjoy -

the old rail line the station would have been behind me, on my right is a 30ft high cutting made from crumbling Portland stone

some of the wild flowers, there are yellow blue white and purple variants

view towards one of the remains of 2 windmills, they were burnt out by friction during a storm. There were 4 magpies fluttering around here, (bramble is hiding by my feet!)

I took the Volvo out to fill it 2 weeks ago only because diesel at our local garage was cheaper than it had been for years. Before that I hadn’t taken it to the petrol station since we were last away in the van in the middle of March.

We're biding our time and waiting for more settled weather before silaging. I've just realised there's another Bank Holiday on the way. That seems to have sneaked up on me.

Meanwhile our son has made a short video for the "EatFarmNow" website as part of their Lockdown Learning. My husband seems to feature quite a lot.

<< WATCH HERE >>

Nice little video Goldie, my daughter has just done one for distance learning, I'm hoping to see it soon as she's had to do a TV type presentation. I felt tempted to say get the fiddle out and add some music! 

Puppy naming. A very important ritual. Even our rehomes, all but one got new names....Tina (Rottweiler, really🤷‍♀️) became Dina, then we had Meghan, Lucy (naughtiest Airedale in the World), Bingley (1996, Pride and Prejudice, but Airedale’s are also known as Bingley Terriers), the floral twins, Lily and Poppy. Then along came Chester, too thick even at eight months to know his name, now named after a famous Yorkshire landmark, and lovely Millie, who at seven when we got her, stayed Millie!

The Rabbit was Attila the Bun😂

We were up early (for us) and over at our local Lidl for the 8am opening as DD had asked if we could get a BBQ Pizza Oven for them, and we had reckoned we might get ourselves an ice cube maker as we never seem to have a flat spot in the freezer for an ice cube tray.  DD has one of those American style fridge freezers, came with the house, that makes and dispenses ice, so we have got quite used to having ice in our cold drinks.

Just as well we were there early as there was only one ice maker and two pizza ovens on the shelf, it is a very small store as Lidls go.

Was dull early on, but the sun soon appeared so it is very warm again now.  After checking the pizza oven for dents or damage, we set up the ice maker, so we now have a box of ice in the freezer which should last a few days,

The freezer is rather full at the moment, so we only had room for one x 2 litre ice cream box, so the surplus cubes were used immediately.  Quite interesting to watch how the Ice is made!

Had facetime with DD and Callum and discussed the easing of lockdown, which is not till the 28th, and it seems she may have a problem.  Teachers are to return to schools in June sometime, to prepare for the return of pupils in August, but Callum's nursery will not be open for a while, so how she is supposed to continue working  will need to be sorted out if SIL is to be in full time in June.

We understand that the schools will probably be operating with the pupils being half the time in school receiving teaching, and half the time doing set work etc at home.

We will be allowed to meet up outside with one other family, but how social distancing can be observed with a 2 year old is not yet clear!