Our New Life in the Country: Rosy and Matilda

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Rosy and Matilda

Are you coming in to play?

Where are you going.....

you won't get in there.....are we playing hide and seek then?

That's a good place under Mum's desk......but I can see you!

You can't leave now it's my turn to hide!!

You have to turn your head like this and count to 10.

See I've vanished bet you can't find me!!

Playtime in the living room yesterday.

Sue xx

10 comments:

Mandy Gardener5 October 2011 at 14:28
So gorgeous! Your dog and chicken are adorable.
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Jane and Chris5 October 2011 at 14:44
Too cute for words!
Jane x
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Unknown5 October 2011 at 15:13
Very sweet :)
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crafty cat corner5 October 2011 at 15:31
Thanks for that Sue, it cheered me up.
Briony
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Shaheen5 October 2011 at 15:42
I have been entertained. Wish I was there to see it for real though :)
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Simone5 October 2011 at 17:46
The hen couldn't be doing with such doggy antics could she?!!!
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Sue5 October 2011 at 18:19
Haha.....yes she could Simone!!

This is Matilda, full name Marauding Matilda, she jumps over the fence most days and snacks in the kitchen garden before coming in the house to look for dog food.

She wanders round and plays with Rosy or trys to play with the cats, but they just think she's mad and ignore her.

She only gets a warning growl if she trys to have a peck at either of the dogs bones.

She comes when we call her, follows me around the farm and lets us pick her up and put her back whenever we want. Once back she stays there for the rest of the day.

Sue xx
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Charlotte5 October 2011 at 18:55
Awww, Mathilda! What a brave little hen :) I love your photos Sue.

Remember my next door's hen? One of the others (less brave) had a chick back in the summer - now grown up and by far the biggest and bravest so far. My veg patch continues to be a favourite haunt :-(!

xxx
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learning slowly5 October 2011 at 19:31
Brilliant blog Sue, keep em coming!
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learning slowly5 October 2011 at 19:32
Brilliant blog Sue, keep em coming!
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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