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First Steps
Just like pots that don’t boil, watched llamas don’t give birth. You can spend hours at a time studying the moment to moment activities of a pregnant llama, searching vainly for any signs of an impending delivery, and then just … Continue reading
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Normal
Oh dear. Another three weeks have passed without a blog entry. Shame on us! Excuses this time? A week’s visit from Simon’s Mum and Dad, followed by a stint of time helping my sister and bro-in-law to renovate their village … Continue reading
Things That Have(n’t) Happened.
I am currently in the process of writing a review of our first six months in the Land of the Free Fruit and Vegetables. However, as I launched into the third wordy paragraph (of the introduction!), I realised it would … Continue reading
Posted in Chickens, Life, Llamas
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Each, Peach, Pear, Plum….
This is a blog about plums. Plum is a nice-sounding word. Like ‘plump’, round and cosy without being fat. And if you say it lots of times quite fast, it sounds like a small, naughty elephant running down a mossy … Continue reading
Fear and Loathing in Las Chickenas
Is it possible that, after all these years of carefully avoiding feather-contact situations, I might be able to overcome my phobia? As a psychologist, I would of course have to say yes. Desensitization; Flooding. Different approaches to the same goal, … Continue reading
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Bed-time Buffoonery
Chickens are stupid, no doubt about it, but they are also very entertaining. And, I am surprised to say, quite endearing in a pointy-beaked, beady-eyed, huge-legged sort of way. For someone with a deeply entrenched feather-phobia, and an impressively over-reactive … Continue reading
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