Rose Cottage Cattery

It has been a few weeks since the last blog entry and a very busy few weeks it has been.

The cattery is doing very well, we were full over half term and the diary is filling up for the summer so if you are still booking a holliday, secure a place for your cat(s) as early as possible.

Our two rescue cats, Peaches and Ting-Ting  (pest control division) are still arriving nightly to grab a bite to eat and a bed for the night before disappearing back to the neighbouring farm to keep down their vermin.  Such is life. Meanwhile our incumbent rats are breeding like mad and babies can be seen scampering merrily across our field.

We had village open gardens last week, I had been approached during the winter and asked if I would open my garden which seemed like a good idea as a spur to getting the grounds ready for our daughter’s wedding.  I have been very busy planting, trimming, mowing, digging for weeks.  Then my youngest son, who was going to be a great help with the heavy jobs, stood on a glass bottle which had just been dropped and slashed his foot - he’s ok now but this was only three days before the open day and I still had a scarecrow to make.

One of our alpacas gave birth to a baby girl alpaca, our first, on the Sunday before the open day and on the open day itself over fifty people visited and made a bee line for the baby alpaca, no one took any otice of the garden.  At least its tidy for the wedding.

My veg plot is looking quite productive, I made a potato tower using old car tyres and it looks as if it has been a success, I will remove the tyres this weekend and see what is there.  There were not enough insects in the greenhouse to fertilise my tomatoes so I tied some hens feathers to a match stick and made an artificial bee, now my tomatoes are setting fruit.

Joy