A Gulley Sucker's mate and Jack FM

Thank goodness for Jack FM!  I do not usually listen to music in the car but I do have a few favourite CDs which I play when in a good mood - Neil Diamond is the latest as I can sing Sweet Caroline very loudly and very out of tune.  However, Sam tuned me into Jack FM and I find it very, very funny so it has been a humorous day despite everything.  In fact I was laughing so much over -

It's hard to know what to make of the Liberal Democrats at the moment - you just can't tell who's in the driving seat.

that I didn't notice at first I had an exhaust problem.  I am now blowing like a crazy thing and only capable of 20mph.  Carl is out there fixing that with one hand whilst dealing with a 'poo problem' with the other - not a personal poo problem, I hasten to add, but a problem with the pump that pumps our sewage and out neighbours into the main drains.  We appear to have a blockage again but the neighbour, fortunately, has a mate with a gulley sucker (no idea what that is but I like the sound of it!).

The exhaust has to be fixed as we have a hospital appointment with the bone marrow people tomorrow - I though that was just something dogs liked so that will be an experience.

Sunday saw the arrival of four more Black Welsh Mountains and they are gorgeous!  I have them in a little isolation paddock where they have been wormed and liver fluked and where I was planning to bucket train them so they would be easier to manage - unnecessary!  They run over whenever they see me coming and the one with the red ear tags loves to be stroked and cuddled - she wags her tail like a dog!  I have a picture of her but it is on my phone and I don't know how to get it off so that will have to go on another blog.

I got a little panicked this afternoon when snow started to fall.  There was none laying in the village but it was on the hill although it seems to have stopped now so I think that will be okay.  Dude was very restless and I could not work out why until I noticed the hunt on the other side of the hill.  Not a good photo as every one is filthy.

The hounds were charging around and then I saw the fox walking, not a care in the world, along the Drove.  I haven't seen a fox for ages - I think the combination of electric fences and alpacas put them off!