The Secret Glen

Our farm is very remote; there are very few people around. But there is a wealth of animal life!

Our woodpecker explores the top lawn. We worry about his wood-pecking method- it's usually just a series of taps delivered at a slow rate of around one tap per three seconds. He needs to go to woodpecker school.
 
There are several wild cats in the area who look just like this one. They have ringed tails, like raccoons. We called our wild barn cat Ringtail, but our son chooses to call it Ringworm. Ringworm now has an identical friend. We call the new one Shingles. Ringworm and Shingles sounds like a nineteenth century firm of solicitors.

Limousin cattle spend a lot of time licking their salt blocks; I find this disturbing to witness on hot days.

As regular readers will know, we have visited nearby Gimel les Cascades many times, but, this time, we found a new path that eventually leads to an ancient church deep in a magical green gully... There is a charge for visiting the waterfalls, but the verdant beauty shown here was free to explore! Feast your eyes on the leafy, mossy world we discovered:
























Lush, eh?

The tower is back in action! We've been putting off finishing the exterior of the first dormer window, but Kevin is now adding the cladding, tiling the roof and painting the window surround.


Blocks to enclose the terrace congregate expectantly...


Guttering and fascias start to go up!
We discovered some other farm wildlife when we took down the kayak from the haystack in the top barn:



What is the world coming to when your boules aren't safe in the barn? I don't know why Barnie allowed this sort of nibbly activity right under his nose (beak)! Tsk!

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  1. Ben Reay22 August 2017 at 05:06

    My favourite of these photos are the bookends:
    Like blurry beak of the woodpecker.
    Like the rodent appetite for plastic

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    1. Deborah Hockey22 August 2017 at 08:23

      Like that you gained some enjoyment from my inane ramblings! 😃

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