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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | | 6:18 pm |
Nice hat, madam.  | | 12:44 am |
...and that is why we call him Katamari Ramacy.  | | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | | 5:10 pm |
sheepies' day off Being as it was Fluff Holiday today the sheepies had a day off.  ( Relaxing sheepie pics ) | | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 | | 12:23 am |
weekend away... ...seeing my brothers. Once a year we meet up and go somewhere for a long weekend.  It was sunny on Saturday. | | Monday, April 14th, 2008 | | 9:57 pm |
cheeky plump sheepie!  Bless :). He's even taken to rolling over like a dog to get his tummy rubbed now. Never seen a sheepie do that before :). | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 2:32 am |
marujada!
delira delira delira galera azulada! }:-D | | Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | | 12:46 pm |
cheeky sheepie!
| | Monday, March 24th, 2008 | | 12:15 am |
well that was odd I woke up this morning and my left ankle was painful. It felt like I'd bashed it or pulled a muscle or done something to the joint, although I don't recall anything happening to it the day before. I was hobbling about a bit during a lot of the day. Seems to be getting better now though. Maybe I did something to it when I was feeding the sheep or something. Oh well, whatever, seems to be going away now. Accordingly I haven't really done that much today apart from sit around playing Burnout Paradise on the xbox (no bad way to spend an easter sunday really). I've always enjoyed the Burnout series and I'm liking this a lot - it's a bit more pure than that previous version where you could shove all the traffic around like snooker balls. I sometimes get the arse with having to choose the route, I don't know the city innately enough yet to make choice of route second nature, and taking your eyes off the road at 200MPH to look at the satnav map will not uncommonly result in finding yourself embedded in the backside of a bus. Mind you there have also been awesome races where i have got totally lost and then gratuitously lucked out finding an odd route or shortcut enabling me to hurtle to an undeserved but satisfying victory, so I guess that works both ways :). Makes you realise how far gaming has come in some aspects. I remember when the likes of Pole Position were the cutting edge.  Simple things like there being perspective on the road! and cars that got bigger as you got close to them! were AMAZING back then. Never mind that really the game played a bit like arse. It was entirely lovable, though, for its bright colours and spinny steering wheel - but yeah, when you look at the new Burnout it reminds you how far we've come...  It's beautifully seamless, too, with a large city and surrounding countryside to explore. I even spent a good time this afternoon racing through the city with a friend who happens to be in Tokyo. We take the online stuff for granted these days but when you stop to think about it it's actually pretty awesome. Yeah, we've come a long way since Pole Position. It's ace living in the future sometimes :). | | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 9:42 pm |
| | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | | 11:20 pm |
Arriving home
After a trip to London, just down yesterday and back today. With one thing and another this is the first time I've spent more than a few hours away from the house since the start of October.
It was also the first time we've been away for a night since the lambs were born. I was sure they would be fine but you can't help but worry and it was lovely to see them fine and running up to greet me when I got back }:-).
Had a nice evening in London, met up with some mates and had a nice piss up and curry. Wales won the rugby too, the match was on in big screens in the pub. Giles is still in London, he's off back to Italy for a few days tomorrow.
Originally I'd planned to go to TCR but the train journey down was long enough that I couldn't realistically get there in any kind of a decent time. I think if I want to join in future events I'll have to go down the day before. Sounds like they had great numbers anyway :).
The guys got me some stuff to cheer me up, it was really nice, a load of Apollo books and DVDs and even a model Saturn V which I shall build and fly from the top field when Giles gets back :D.
It's quiet in the house with Giles away and no dog (I pick her up from kennels tomorrow) so I'm sat here listening to Caprichoso songs. I think I'll have some DVD spaceflight and a beer before I go to bed }:-).
Current Mood: Home
Current Music: Caprichoso é meu viver | | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | | 12:29 am |
went to see this tonight  Giles checks the schedules for the Swansea cinema frequently, and noticed that this was on for just one night tonight. I've got a bit of a thing about Apollo, having been a kid of 7 years old when Neil and Buzz made their landing. Me and my dad used to watch every mission's coverage avidly. It was incredibly cool to be a kid growing up at a time when people were actually building spaceships and sending them to the Moon and back. It was also incredibly sad when once the political point had been made funding and public enthusiasm for the missions evaporated into nothing. The film was excellent, and I'll definitely be wanting to get a copy in hi-def (I guess that'll be Blu-ray now; at last my ps3 is finding some true usefulness };-)). It doesn't concentrate heavily on the scientific and technical aspects of the missions, although there is much beautiful footage from them (some of which I'd not seen before). We all know where these people went, and how. What is excellent in this film is that they tell us about how it felt to do all that, and how it affected them personally. Awesome, inspiring stuff which only goes to further reinforce my respect for these guys with balls of neutronium who did something amazing in spacecraft held together with hope, prayers and bits of string. | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | | 2:46 pm |
front cover }:-)  Thanks to our friend in Tokyo }:-). | | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 11:27 pm |
sheepies sheltering from hail shower The camera flash illuminated the tiny descending spheres of ice.  | | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | | 11:17 pm |
It is important to check that the ears are still fluffy.
The ears are checked several times a day. It's important. | | Friday, February 15th, 2008 | | 9:59 pm |
| | Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | | 11:18 pm |
Ewenity with surviving lamb  We've had a run of really lovely days here, and all the sheepies have been enjoying them (and us too; it's always nice to sit in the field in the warm sunshine and spend time with the beasties, and this is the first time this year it's really been warm enough). Ewenity and her lamb are doing well - his ears are just starting to take proper shape now (they take a few days to go from floppy like dog ears to the sticky out shape of normal sheep ears). He's a very energetic lamb and is running and bouncing beside his mum all day and seems to be happy and healthy. Ginger and her two are also fine, Jerry (the larger lamb) is the picture of a perfect, robust and healthy lamb. Fuwafuwa (the smaller lamb) is quite a lot smaller but he is gaining weight, the problems with his legs have pretty much gone away and it is just nice to see him happy and doing so well after the very rough start he had in life. Having to tube feed him was horrible for him and stressful for us but seeing him now recovered and enjoying the sun makes it all worth it :). Today was also sunny but it turned a LOT colder, and, predators notwithstanding, I am glad that the mums and lambs are snug indoors tonight snuggled into lots of warm straw :). Ewenity seems to be a bit more used to being closed in for the night, she still baas a bit at first but she isn't as freaked out as she was the first night. And at least we can be sure that her lamb is safe :). It's funny in the morning when we go out though and both mums hear us coming - there is a LOUD chorus of baas and the tapping of hooves on stable doors as they wait to be let out :). | | Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | | 11:09 pm |
Nature gives, and Nature takes away
sometimes brutally.
We got up this morning early, to go to the Sunday boot sale in Carmarthen. Upon going to check the sheepies we found Ewenity in the field with only one of her lambs.
We spent the next couple of hours searching all nearby land where it might have got lost, but there was no sign. We can only conclude that it was taken, by a fox or a hawk I suppose, those being the only likely threats to anything round here. For such things to even take lambs in rare, although it is possible when they are newborn and tiny.
Even so, I've never seen a fox on this place in 10 years I've lived here... but whatever happened, that little lamb is gone without trace, and only a few hours after coming into the world, poor little bugger.
Both mums and lambs will be shut in the stables from evening until morning from now on, until the lambs are definitely big enough not to be at risk. Ewenity really doesn't like being shut in, but she'll have to get used to it. We can't risk any more lambs being taken :(. | | Saturday, February 9th, 2008 | | 7:57 pm |
Sunny day in Wales... ...and someone fluffy was really enjoying basking in the sun!  And today our suspicions that Ewenity too might be full of lambs were confirmed. ( sheepies++ )It looks like a ram and a ewe lamb in the new pair, so that's three rams, and three upcoming visits to the vet for sure - it's nice that Ginger and Ewenity have been able to fulfil their biological destiny an' all, but really now we are FULL of sheep and we can't really have another generation after this one }:-). The Digestive biscuit bill alone will be significant };-). Boy are we in for a cute Spring though with four little fluffballs to play with }:-D. | | Friday, February 8th, 2008 | | 9:43 pm |
whatsamatter wid yu hat?
THIS IS TOM CRUISE'S GURU.
| | Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | | 7:54 pm |
lamb o'clock  As you can clearly see from the position of the fluffy little ears, this picture was taken at ten to three. |
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