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We went to
bed on Friday night with the heart rending noise of a herd of cows on the farm
just above us, crying out in enormous distress.
This has happened before
and we assume it’s because their calves have just been taken away from them.
The noise
was incredible with one cow, even more distressed then the rest, sounding
out above her sisters.
The calling
was still continuing on Saturday morning when our rescued cow Aunt Dotty,
thankfully out of the cruelties of the commercial dairy herd, came up from our
bottom fields and stood listening to these anguished cries and calling out
herself in sympathy.
Today,
Monday, the cries although a lot less subdued can still clearly, and
poignantly, be heard from here.
What has
happened to their calves by now does not bear thinking about. And we call
ourselves a nation of animal lovers.
In between all this run up to and Christmas celebration we
have been dealing with this weather and the issues it brings when caring for
our animals on a daily basis. So it was
lovely to see a break in the rain today; we duly rushed down to the coast and
the sea looked like this…
In our house we do not only have the pleasure in celebrating
Christmas, but Boxing Day is a birthday day here as well. so this year, despite hurting the tendon in
my hand 2 days earlier, created (not a brilliant looking) Yule Log = did taste
better than it looked !!! 
Taking time out to enjoy the beautiful surrounding and know
why we choose to live here. Winter
sunshine and blue sky can be really spectacular, lovely time had by us on a
very quiet beach.
