Sunny Pooh Corner

At Last! The Lambs have arrived.

sunnypoo — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:41:09 +0000

At last our pet sheep has delivered us with 13 healthy lambs, 6 boys and 7 girls. A big thank you to David Riley who added trainee shephard to his list of achievments whilst he was staying with us. On hand 24/7, watching out for predators, escapee lambs and topping up the drinking water.
It’s Lorna’s Birthday on Saturday (5th May) and we are expecting a new carpet to arrive then. The question is, do I suggest the carpet is her Birthday present? Mmmm! May be not. Any way if anyone has any suggestions for her present please let me know.
Bookings for pitches have been coming in quite steadily and it is looking like it is going to be a good season. We appear to have moved on into some fine weather now the rain has stopped. Blue skies and very warm. Summer is on the way. Yippee!
The geese are very active at present and laying steadily everyday. Now geese are not everybodies choice of pets, but there eggs are very special. Scrambled eggs especially so. Creamy and tasty and are excellent in batter puddings and cakes. Plus the best property guards you can get. Nobody goes in or out with out them letting everybody know.
The chickens are also on their best behaviour laying lots of eggs everyday and if you come to stay with us, you must try them. Deep yellow and so very tasty. So unlike shop bought ones.
Tyler & Connor (our labs) are fine, Tyler’s arthritus is getting worse in his leg but he is soldiering on and Connor – mad as ever. Just wants to be friends with everybody.
I think that covers everybody to date.
We are looking forward to meeting our future guests, both old and new this summer. So wishing you all a safe trip and see you soon.
Lorna & Ray

Another year begins

sunnypoo — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:01:05 +0000

Happy New Year to friends old and new. We had a great Christmas and hope you all did to.
Where is the snow that was predicited last autumn. So far we have had rain, rain and more rain. Lorna and I are are thinking about building an Ark for the animals and us. The caravan field ground is remarkably firm, thanks to the stone path and draining we put in two years ago.
We have had the builders in, adding a bedroom into our loft. The original plan was for it to be finished by Christmas – should have known better. Scaoffolding still up, a metal girder big enough to support Blackpool Tower still sticking out our hedge and dust everywhere, regardless of the number of times it is cleaned up. What was that saying – it will be alright when it’s finished. Lets hope so.
Bookings for 2012 have been coming in so hopefully we will have a good year. The shower & toilet seems to have coped with last years usage and is going to be finished painting, tiling etc as soon as it stops raining. Currently out pet sheep are munching on the grass in the Caravan field, 7 of them hopefully will be having their lambs in the spring starting at the begining of March. The chickens are growing webbed feet and have stopped laying and looking very sorry for them selves because of the weather. So roll on Spring.
The centre of the field, which is left to grow naturally was planted with some wild flower seeds so hopefully we will see a bit more colour next year.
Well, its back to painting upstairs. Looking forward to hearing/seeing you.
Lorna & Ray

At Last

sunnypoo — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:38:18 +0000

Spring/Easter is here and sunshine as well. Can this be England in April?

The new season has started with a full house of guests for the Easter weekend. They have all been blessed with a hot & sunny break which is what we want for all our visitors.

The shower & loo emporium is open and has been thoroughly tested and has stood up to it well. It has been a long time coming but we think worth the wait.

On the animal front we have 3 geese sitting on eggs all very snug together and we are expecting to hear the chirp of their young any day. We gave our sheep a haircut to day. We started with trepidation as these were the first sheerings for birth of us. All went well (very slowly) until we had an escapee (Dolly), half shawn, looking like a woolly jumper unravelling, running around the paddock with Lorna hot on it’s heels. Anyway, after a half an hour and a lot **$!!?? from Ray we eventually captured her and finished her grooming. We don’t think we will win any prizes and nor there will be any Ram suitors coming to visit,but they are a lot cooler. Russell the cockerel is doing his thing and hopefully will be Dad in the next week or so, fingers crossed.

We would like to thank all of you who have added comments on our blog and other sites. We really appreciate your kind words and of course if there are any suggestions for improvements please let us know.

Lorna has just finished the ironing so I had better finish this and pay attention to her (or else). Looking forward to seeing old and new guests this year.

Ray & Lorna

Christmas Past

sunnypoo — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:18:02 +0000

Happy New Year to all our friends and visitors from Lorna & Ray & the menagerie. We hope you all had a great Christmas and have by now recovered from the festivities.

Leading up to the holidays was a bit frantic as getting the turkeys ready was a necessary evil which had to be done. Feathers every where, including one or two stuck to Connors nose! Anyway, all went according to plan and now thoughts for re-stocking for 2011 is under discussion. Well that’s what Lorna calls it. Ray has another name for it!

The snow was particularly hard on the the sheep as no grass was available for a couple of weeks so hay had to be provided. Can anyone with a spare bale in their garage please let us know.

The toilet/shower emporium is gathering momentum, said items are now in place but not plumbed in, so a couple of weeks should see completion. Unfortunately, the bushes outside have been eaten by the sheep and an invasion of moles will mean a bit of landscaping to be done. So all it leaves now is to find someone to cut the ribbon.

Russell the cockerill is doing well, getting bigger and the plumage is taking on a grand colour and keeping his girls in order. Still very friendly and quickly becoming a favourite of Lorna’s.

Finally, we would like to thank those who have posted comments on the blog. We can never have too many, please keep them coming.

Autumn rain

sunnypoo — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:24:38 +0000

We are very happy to annouce that the 5 chicks are actually 4 hens and one cockrel (named Russell) and a very handsome boy he is turning out. Our 6 turkeys and 4 geese for Xmas are all getting bigger but slightly water logged with the recent rainfall. We have had to replace the turkey roof once this year already as we lost most of it in the high winds a couple of weeks ago. Riley has been going into the paddock with the new chicks, showing them the ropes plus who is the boss. (I think in time Russell will show her who’s boss). Bruno is loving the wet weather and is paddling around in his paddock but i think missing Riley when she wanders off with the new chicks. He amuses himself sometimes by tormenting the dogs (Tyler and Connor) who normally give him a wide berth. The weather forecast for the next week is for snow, that usually brings it’s own challenges to sunnypooh animals, so i will let you know how things go.

Lorna

Riley on the road

Lorna — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:35:21 +0000

we have new additions to sunny pooh, 5 wellsummer chick 5 weeks old. we actually bought them at a poultry auction about two weeks ago and as yet we do not know how many are male or female. some days when i look at them i am convinced we have been lucky and that we have 4 chickens and 1 cockerel other times they all look like cockerels. so the jury is still out on that!!
Riley our pet chicken has taken to patrolling up and down the lane. thankfully the lady down the road brings her back. she assures me that this is easily done as Riley comes to her name and ‘heels’,(she might now think herself to be of the canine species).
The ‘shower/toilet’cabin is up and painted ‘forest green’ my choice of colour but now i think ‘autumn gold’ would have been a better choice, i’m waiting a while before i mention this to Ray.
Geese, goslings, turkeys, lambs and sheep are all well and enjoy this dry bright weather we are having recently.
Hope you are all well. will let you know how lucky we have been with the chicken verses cockerel.

lorna

End of season

Lorna — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:59:20 +0000

Well, thats another season over. With some old friends returning and some new ones made. We (Lorna, Ray, Tyler & Conner (the fierce dogs who will lick you to death), Wally (the cat), The sheep and lambs (too many names to mention), Mork & Mindy and their young goslings and of course not to forget Bruno (pet slightly neurotic pet goose) and Riley (a hen with a male name who is scyzophrenic (thinks she is a goose, but possably a chicken or a member of the household!)) would like to thank all our visitors this year (don’t forget to come back!!!) who have made this our best year to date.

We are continually trying to improve the site and facilities year on year, so any suggestions please leave a comment. |At present Lorna has hammer in hand, directing Ray in the correct way of errecting a chalet for a shower and loo for next year. So far so good, no blood split and the walls look straight and upright.

We hope we get some comments both good and bad as we are always looking at ways of improving things.

This blog is new so again if there is anything we need to mention on the area, the animals, the site or us, please let us know. We will try and update on a weekly basis, but please don’t hold us to this. as we might be cleaning the chicken house. lambing lambs or similiar.