oh my goodness, so much has happened! we have had sonia come and go, spending three weeks trying her hardest to be our best ever visitor! the competition is heated with such amazing people staying with us! hello to the aussie contingencies, the holmes family being the latest. the sheep are giving birth, eleven lambs so far, and the goats are moving more slowly and looking heavier - they give birth around fabien's birthday, which is what has finally prompted me to get a page in - he will be seven on the fourteenth, and the cakes have been made, balloons to be bought and so on. pass the parcel indoors and outdoors british bulldog - hope the weather is good! we are at present just the family - makes a change! and the children completed a weeks circus training - video to follow, the greenhouse is blooming, the seeds are sowing and the cockerels are crowing. surprise visit for fabien's party from his sun mum ann - yippee... see ya