This morning we were in the garden with Alex:
when my wife saw a poppy was out. Is this a big deal?
Yes, it’s exciting. They are quite unusual, big and very frilly.
Also it was almost free; I got it and some others on sale at a garden centre last autumn (I may have mentioned this before).
I planted them on this bank, which I also seeded with wild flowers (daisies, buttercups, forget-me-nots, cow-parsley & grasses):
We inherited Alex, he’s fourteen. Alma’s started calling him Arthur, it suits him better.
A Bad Guide 
(Kinda dog related.) Should we go see O’ Horten?
Oh, M, as always you know twice as much as I do. I don’t follow Norwegian films, but having read the wikipedia summary, I think it sounds okay and now I’m going to rent it myself. This bit of the wiki piece makes it sound VERY typical of some aspects of Norwegian society (not ours):
There’s another possible explanation for square-eyed goats, apart from television-watching, if they can get at the poppies. I just read the scene in Hardy’s Tess where the entire dairy force has to close ranks and move slowly across a field, to find and destroy even the minutest garlic plant. A London buyer had reported that customers complained about a “twang” in the butter.
I see from your pictures of the goats that they often just lie around, gazing vacantly at the sky.
One “are” too many in that last comment.
” A London buyer had reported that customers complained about a “twang” in the butter. ” I remember how much I liked it at primary school when the grass stopped growing and our school milk would start to taste of turnips.
It’s your whisky-tasting genes. I ‘d have had a hard time knowing it was milk, if it hadn’t been white.
Goats don’t like garlicky twangs either.
Father’s Day yielded a half-bottle of Glenfiddich 12 year old. Cheers!
That’s a nice way of dealing with a bank that’s too steep to mow. Since I do the mowing, and will continue to do it after I move (across the street), I’m always looking for ways to reduce my carbon footprint. I’m starting to regret the fertilizer I put on last spring though, since with all this rain, the grass is doubling in height every three days, and I’m mowing every time the sun is out.
a bank that’s too steep to mow
I forgot to say that was definitely a factor.