Jim Webster's Blog, page 28

Sheep, just because!

My lady wife had to get another car. It’s not new, but it is newer. Thus every time she starts it, a disembodied female voice informs her that ‘Emergency Assistance is not operational.’ It sums up so much of modern technology. This is a service we never asked for, haven’t got a clue what it …

It’s unseasonably warm

It’s sunny, it’s even hot at times, and I haven’t worn waterproofs for at least a fortnight. So what are we up to? Sheep are doing OK, lambs are growing nicely. They always say that lamb has to be cooked twice, once outside in the sun and once inside in the oven. But they’re looking …

Scout Pilot of the Free Union

  I don’t often review books, but I’m making an exception here because a writer whose work I like has branched out into a new field. Space Opera. So it would be churlish not to mention it so others get a chance to look at what he’s doing.   Scout Pilot of the Free Union …

#bookreview – Tallis Steelyard and The Sedan chair caper

Originally posted on Robbie's inspiration:
What Amazon says Rather than his usual collection of anecdotes, this time Tallis presents us with one gripping adventure. A tale of adventure, duplicity and gentility. Why does an otherwise respectable lady have a pair of sedan chair bearers hidden in her spare bedroom? Why was the middle aged…

Lord alone knows how that happened!

  It’s my experience that after a while all sorts of people get to know of your existence. Frankly some times it can be a damned nuisance. Over the years I’ve ended up talking to all sorts of people, some of whom probably were certifiable. There again at other times it can be fascinating and …

Can you have too much garlic?

Some years ago I remember chatting to a man who worked for the now long disbanded Milk Marketing Board. One of his jobs was working as a trouble shooter for the board, helping solve those little problems that crop up. One problem was caused by wild garlic. A dairy herd on his patch escaped out …

Hanging on in there

There has been a story circulating in the media about a cow wearing a bra. Basically the lady in question had two rear teats which are a bit close to the ground, so her calf tends to suck the front two teats because it’s easier. So the farmer put a bra over the front two …

And at last.

Well it’s finally happened, the last ewe has lambed. After just over two months, they’ve finally finished. The last ewe, (really she was a hogg as it’s her first lamb) was been outside with the others rather than being kept on her own in the pens. This is because sheep don’t really like being on …

A haiku for swimming sheep

  Just because somebody can do something, it doesn’t mean that they should. Just as some men shouldn’t wear lycra, sheep shouldn’t swim. Once they’ve been sheared it’s not such a problem. Like cattle they can swim reasonably well and have good natural buoyancy. But in spring, before they’re sheared, sheep really shouldn’t swim. All …

A sea of Maize and the full moon.

You can tell that it’s spring. They’re planting maize, and round here a lot of it is planted under ‘plastic’. It can be a little disconcerting, when you look across a field from a distance it looks in some cases as if the tide has come in a little far, it’s the same colour as …