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Glynelwyn - Photos

 

Spring 2018

Happy St Davids Day

 

More snow in March

 

             

 

      

Off to find water trough with snow drift nearly burying it

 

      

 

      

Sheep venturing from feed troughs

 

      

These are tucking into their haylage

 

             

 

      

A short hike to deliver haylage to these rams

 

             

Anglo-Nubian goat kids born this morning

 

             

 

             

 

      

Snowdrops everywhere!

 

      

6 day old Lucifer out with Mum Belair

 

      

 

      

Nice to see the hedgerow showing some Spring colour

 

      

From snow to rain to Spring sunsets

 

             

 

      

Day old Anglo-Nubian triplets

 

             

Lovely colour from these crocuses

 

      

Another covering of snow and rams glad of their haylage

 

      

 

      

Pip enjoys wrestling with a stick in the snow

 

      

Lucifer is 2 weeks old now and out having fun with Mum

 

The Berkshire piglets snug in their ark

 

             

 

             

These Anglo-Nubian kids off for disbudding

 

             

 

Goat kids enjoying playing out in the sunshine

 

             

 

Worn out now!

 

Beautiful colour

 

      

Twin Anglo-Nubian kids born today

 

This goose egg just about fits on the bread!

 

Easter

Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday

 

             

We save a breast from our home reared Christmas Turkey
in the freezer for Easter, and it looks, carves and tastes wonderful
(Try that with a supermarket bird!)

 

      

Easter sunsets

 

Latest Anglo-Nubian goat kid

 

             

Colour of Spring

 

             

Ducks lazing on the pond

 

      

 

       

These Berkshire piglets up to mischief !

 

             

 

More colour in the garden

 

These have to be the flowers of Spring

 

      

Loads of primroses on this bank

 

      

 

      

Lovely light this evening

 

      

These Hedgerows will soon be 'greening up'

 

 

Goat kids out in the sunshine

 

      

Back inside for a rest

             

Berkshire piglets

Our first Swallow today ( nearly 2 weeks later this year )

 

      

Tash wants someone to play with her !

 

This gooseberry bush already looking good

 

Bluebells in the garden ......

 

      

.... and in the hedgerow

 

             

Sun setting over the Preseli Hills

 

             

 

      

 

      

These sheep being rounded up for shearing

 

      

Goats looking on

 

             

 

 

             

..... and more sheep for shearing

 

             

Shearing time

 

      

Back out in the sunshine

 

Garden looks tidy with lawn cut

 

Rhododendron coming into flower

 

      

.... and now in full bloom

 

      

 

      

Apple Blossom

 

             

 

             

Colourful leaves

 

Rhubarb is late this year

 

      

Gooseberries                        Blackcurrants

 

      

The lane hedges are all looking green now

 

             

 

             

Hedgerow flora

 

Rhododendron

 

Speading lime on this hay field

 

Still using Christmas turkey, this time in a pie

 

Sunsets are moving further round now

 

      

Laburnam in flower

 

Anglo-Nubian goat pics

 

      

 

      
Latest addition - still to be named

 

             

 

             

 

             

Lots of black and white spotted kids

 

      

 

      
Mum and daughter at a lick bucket

 

Bacchus - our senior  Billy

 

      

 

      

Anubis - our junior Billy

 


Some of the gang together

 

             
.... and a few sheep

 

             

...... some Berkshire weaners

 

      

.... and of course Pip

 

      

Just check no one's watching

 

      

...... go for it!

 

10 years today when we first moved here

 

      

2008                -                 2018

 

             

Still a wonderful secluded spot down by the stream

 

             

 

             

Yellow laburnam and Mauve rhododendron

 

             

Aquilegia everyewhere

 

      

London Pride and Pink Campion

 

             

Bluebells on the walk up to do the pigs water