Well who would have thought it!

Well who would have thought it. After having Oscar for all these years we discovered at 1830 last night that HE is a SHE and we have to call her OSCARINA.
She proudly produced an egg and we expect at least 2 more before she finishes. Of course it is infertile as there is no male involved HA HA!
Is that a virgin birth?
We started to guess that something was different a couple of weeks ago when she started cooching (Welsh slang word for cuddling) up to me and bit Sue quite hard, something she had never done before. Though of course we never guessed at the time but hindsight is a wonderful thing!
So let me introduce you to OSCARINA though I should imagine that we will have a bit of a problem getting her to say it after she has been calling herself Oscar for all these years.

Allotment update

Well thanks to good weather and a star named Rob Evans! I managed to get up there yesterday under the watchful eye of my beloved Sue and just about got it up to date.
The runner bean sticks are up and ready, all beds are ready to be planted and just one bed, the fruit patch needs forking over around the bushes that are there already (see below).
Runner beans in pots ready, 4 rows of potatoes in, a row of cabbages in, tomatoes & cucumber in grow bags in the greenhouse.
I got 2 gooseberry bushes in the fruit patch to go with the 2 blackcurrant bushes already there.
Rob helped me with all the heavy lifting that had to be done putting the slabs down in the greenhouse etc.
Showers and sunny periods today and my bald patch got burnt enough yesterday!!!!!!!!
Again Many thanks to Rob Evans who has the plot next to us!

Off Sick

I am a bit peed off really as I tore some muscles in my shoulder whilst delivering to Next in Truro on Saturday last. Not too bad on Sunday, Sunday night I had a job to sleep or get comfortable as the pain was quite bad! Hoping it heals by Thursday so that I can get back to work?
Tried to rest it over the next few days but in the end had to go to the docs today (Thurs) and he laughed and asked if I really expected it to heal in 5 days?
As I said to him "you can always hope". Well he has signed me off until next Thursday and said it should be OK by then!
I AM BORED ALREADY! any suggestions as I cannot even get up the allotment. We are going out later to get peas, runner beans etc. to start off in the greenhouse but there is so much more I would like to get done up there. Well at least most of the heavy work is done so it is only pottering and I have no doubt Sue will have to come up to "keep an eye on me".
Well happy days at least the sun is shining.

Sharon, Danielle & Natalie, Race for life

Sharon, Danielle & Natalie are doing this years Race for Life in Memory of Sue (Mike's late wife) & Natalie's Late Grandmother Lee Bourne who's passing was announced in an earlier post.
It is on 31st of May in Milton Keynes and all donations will be very gratefully received.
As this is a charity close to all our hearts lets be generous!
Donations can be made (very simply) online, the link is below, it must be easy because I did it!
We look forward to some pictures and a report from Sharon when it is done!!!!
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/sharonhowe1

March 2009 Holiday in Splatt

Having been back nearly 2 weeks now I thought perhaps it was about time I posted about it. Mind you pressure of work has also had a lot to do with it being delayed!

I think it is safe to say it is the best spring holiday, weather wise, that we have for some years as we only had one shower and that was during the night.

Consequently we went out most days, some to look at National Trust places and others just to take in the sights and enjoy the fantastic weather.

The holiday was marred a little by the fact that we had to come back a day early (missing 2 days really as we would have gone somewhere on the way home) as Tony (Sue's brother) was to have an operation on the Friday, especially as the op was cancelled at the last minute and Sue was already on the train going to Chichester when she received the phone call.

This is possibly the nearest you will ever see Sue to a bull! Still I suppose she gets enough from me?

Godreavy Island & Lighthouse (near Hayle)

These pictures were taken at All Saints Church, Dunterton. Illustrating the difference a lens can make! The left one was taken with a fisheye & the right with a normal wide angle!

All Saints Church, Dunterton. Again taken with a fisheye lens. notice the curve of the tower!

I just love using this lens. Ha ha!

I found whilst out for a walk on the nature trail this very small fly who seemed to be so photogenic that I just had to try to get it with the macro lens (above & below)

A mother and her 2 sons. I hope they will be luscious steaks in the not too distant future. Ha ha!

http://www.splattfarm.co.uk/index.htm

More Karis (how she grows)!