I don’t know about you but every time I visit my vet I’m immediately confronted with posters highlighting the importance of worming your pet dog, cat and even your horse. Treatment for infestation of roundworms in puppies and kittens and for tapeworms later on in life is usually accepted as a sensible course of action to keep your pet healthy and our approach to our poultry shouldn’t be any different, for there are worms that thrive in our birds and though the problem is more acute in the warmer summer weather than in cold winter time with global warming and the trend for warmer wetter winters, worms are becoming more of an all year round problem.

The air is perfectly quiescent and all is stillness, as if
Nature, after her exertions during the Summer, were now at rest.

However strange it may sound, I am really loving these early autumnal mornings with mist laying gentle across the woodland and fields. For me and Troy it’s really worth getting out there, getting your shoes soaking wet in the dew that now lays until mid morning, just to see the plants and spider webs that lay gilded in silver dew.

With the dog days of summer now behind us the drop in night temperature is a sign that the seasons are changing. By dawn, the grass is covered with dew, which lingers until late morning, as the sun rises later and lower in the sky. The autumnal harvest gets into full swing as bramble, rowan and hawthorn berries ripen and at Alledal we have been anxious to make the most of them.

I know it’s been a while since I wrote an entry, over a month, so I thought I try and update you all as to what’s been going on here at Alledal. It has been a very busy time. We’ve had houseguests, undertaken a major rewiring of the barn and had an altogether too brief visitor from Poland.

I’ve just realised that apart from the slideshow I did for my Wildflower Project, I’ve hardly posted at all for a month. So this is just a typical diary entry to let all of you out there in the electronic ether what’s been happening around Alledal.