We took the two laying hens off to their holiday home today. I'm sure they will be very happy with their new companions - particularly the rooster. The six ducks are off to a different holiday home tomorrow and then we have to get busy packing and preparing for our departure on Friday.
I am concerned that I am becoming too predictable since my diary tells me this was exactly what I was doing on 13th January 2014.
All in all, 2014 was a great year - the pigs grew well and produced some excellent pork which has kept us fed; we also raised a couple of dozen chickens for the freezer, collected a lamb which was due to us and even managed to buy some local beef from a friend and neighbour who had slaughtered one of their Belted Galloway bullocks. No shortage of meat! In fact we could probably live for another year on the contents of the freezer.
However it is definitely time to head south - the Atlantic storms have been building in strength, the temperature has dropped and we had a light fall of snow today. Of course it will probably blow over and warm up again by the weekend but the days are too short and there is very little to be done outside.
I have already completed the first four volumes of Churchill's 'History of the English Speaking Peoples' and need a good dose of sunshine and a new wine selection to get me through the last one.
This year we are off to Southern Africa: - 10 days on safari in Botswana and then 4 weeks mooching around the wineries and beaches of the Western Cape.
I imagine there will be some tales to tell along the way, some old friends to catch up with and some new ones to make.
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