The garden busy with new arrivals pausing on their way north. Two Siskins on the bird feeder this morning. They look exotic out here on this northerly peninsula. https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/siskin. The chaffinches have had a good year for breeding. 'The Font' counts 23 of them on the lawn in the warmth of the sun. They're certainly more numerous than the greenfinches and goldfinches who seem to have struggled in the damp conditions.
Dog walkers already out and about in the village. It's getting light at a little after five and family companions are keen to get their day started. Give it another three or four weeks and, for all intents and purposes, it won't get dark. The farmer is already hard at work planting potatoes. Worm hunting seagulls and crows wheel around his tractor. Nothing like a bit of deep ploughing to bring out the choicest worms.
A different kind of visitor in the field at the end of the track . Fifty sheep making short work of the cauliflowers. They seem completely unperturbed by our arrival. Can there be anything in nature as happy as a sheep in a cauliflower field ? They shred the green leaves with an efficiency matched only by their enthusiasm.
A few of the more adventurous members of the flock have wandered off and are eating the reeds down by the fish pond. A heron watches them warily.
In readiness for the arrival of the summer visitors the expensive golfing stores facing the 18th green have redone their window displays. The mannequins have large labels saying 'New Seasons Fashions '. To an untrained eye the fashions don't seem to have changed since the 1950's. Pastel Polo shirts are still the thing in golfing circles.
Local golfers the first to tee off this morning. You know the locals by the fact they wear bobble hats. Foreign visitors sport baseball caps which are not as warm and are prone to blowing off in the coastal gusts. The locals also have a more relaxed 'mix and match' approach to fairway fashion than foreign visitors who tend to be colour coordinated.
The Ladies Golf Union have new faux lead garden troughs in their front garden. A sign that at this end of town there is a general pre-summer sprucing up going on. Quarter of a mile down the road things are quieter in Quad although the library a block away is already busy. Exams that once seemed so distant start next week.
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I'm wondering if there's a market for 'cauliflower-fed lamb', in the same way that meat from those sheep who munch on seaweed on Orkney Islands beaches commands a high price?
The toothpaste debate has been going on for decades. Toothpaste manufacturers would claim that it's necessary, of course.
Can there be anything as exasperated as a cauliflower farmer watching 50 sheep eat his profits? Those cute faces...
The sheep are so cute. And they will clean up the leftover leaves and fertilize the field at the same time. I assume they are intentionally in the field.
Travel and Diaday - You can be 100% sure the sheep have been placed there intentionally. Sheep in this part of the world are of the happy and unstressed variety.
Sheep in a sun-drenched cauliflower field by the sea; what a wonderful picture.
The sheep at the front of the second photo is obviously very used to having it's photo taken!
Our daily nature walk with new colorful pleasures: brown sheep eating bright green cauliflower leaves.
I've downloaded your sheep photo to use as my desktop. So cute :)We are clearly a group of animal lovers!
Love the one golfer wearing both a baseball cap and a woolly hat
Wendy (Wales)
I had to go back to and enlarge the picture to find the baseball cap- bobble hat-wearing gentleman. The belt-and-suspenders type surely...
The sheep look very serene.
I love the second photo, but knowing what happens when some people eat cabbage, I wonder what feeding cabbage to sheep will do to current greenhouse gas emission levels near your new home!
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