Settling in....

I have come to the conclusion now that i have started to settle down at bit over here. We are in our new house, the weather has started to cheer up and I'm having to do the usual household routines of cleaning and laundry. There are just a few differences between living in Reigate. Instead of waking up and looking out our apartment window and seeing the cars drive past and people walking along the paths. I have woken up to find bulls, cows and calves along our fence line. It is a beautiful site to see. At six o'clock yesterday morning when I went outside to feed our rather noisy puppies for 6 in the morning, I looked over to see a newborn calf just learning to stand up for the first time.

I realise the pic is not the best but I was not able to get too close or they would have run away. This little thing was so cute and so small. As well as discoving this beautiful little thing I also discovered my new flip flop was no longer so new, instead rather chewed, despite having put it inside out of the way. Clearly Dodge and Im pretty sure mostly Dolly had other ideas in mind for my shoe. Now ordinarily it wouldnt have greatly bothered me, I would have just gone out and bought a new pair. But as I am now living in the middle of no where, where there isnt a handy accessorize in town, I had to make do with 'fixing it'. I trimmed off all the loose wicker bits and then used the only glue I could find, a good old pritt stick, to glue the rest of the bits down. I have to admit it did work, but now each time I wear them my left foot feels a little sticky. However in finding this chewed shoe, it made me feel less guilty about taking them to the vet to have their needles. They were rather reluctant to go into the vet at first but seemed to be fine pretty soon. Dolly did not flinch one little bit which was good, but dodge did. However I can understand why he did. the vet picked up the loose bit of skin at the back of the neck to put the needle in, but instead of just putting it in she put it right the way through. Meaning that when she squeezed the syringe the vaccine squirted straight back out the other side of his skin. Poor little thing. This then meant he had to have another one. I was not particularly impressed. She of course blamed it on the fact that he moved. I beg to differ......