New Addition

During this week Alistair's sheep were scanned to see how many were in lamb. Several ewes are having triplets so he will have a very busy lambing time. Whilst the scanner was here we had Gladys the goat scanned also. She is 80-90 days pregnant so round about February March time we will have a kid born.

At long last we have a date to demolish the old house. The demolition squad will be arriving on the first working day in January and they tell us that we can give the builders a start date of February 1st. All the builders quotes are finally in and we have a meeting with one of them tomorrow.

The electricians have rewired the outbuildings so we have light and sockets now in most areas of the farm. The chickens are gradually increasing their egg production, probably because we have put a time switch on the lighting circuit to give them a longer day.

The recent cold weather has meant that we have had difficulty with water supply as all the main pipes and taps have been frozen. Another area to improve and modify.

Presently our time at Redlands is very limited as Geoff's dad is very poorly and we cannot leave him on his own for very long, the dark nights aren't helping either.