She keeps her emotions out of sight, in fact, most of the time they are so far out of sight that sometimes not even she knows what she is feeling.
We are going back to last Wednesday, when we got up at some unearthly hour so that she could go to the allotments to pick Rosemary and other herbs for the goats.
That was the plan, but 'life' had other plans for her, the radio told us about the traffic which was gridlocked and backed up along the roads to the Hogarth Roundabout.
This is exactly the route she would have to take, so quick think, did the goaty folk already know about the herbs? She thought not, they can have them a other day as a surprise.
And so she left at a more civilised hour to meet Debbie of Ellie's Dairy. But en route a quick stop at our very local Italian Deli produced some delicious things, like the biscotti that Joe in Ottawa has been promising us the recipe, for how many years is it now Joe? Two or three!
It was a snap of a journey, very quick District Line to Ealing Broadway and main line to Heathrow and her getting off at Hayes & Harlington and a ten minute walk brought her to a space with greenlawns, nice amounts of tree planting and smart office blocks.
And a parked up Goat trailer FULL of goaty folk and their mum.. aka Debbie.
She had not really thought of how she would feel about talking to a goat again after fifty years, she had just thought that would be a fun thing to do but not considered her emotional response to the situation.
She greeted Debbie and then peered into the back of the trailer to find Husky, a year old and a veteran at jaunting about like this, she is grey and white and very people friendly.
In the front were four little kids, a band of three little brothers of mixed colours and a little black boy with white edgings to his face and ears.
If she was capable of putting photos on to my Blog, you, Dear Readers, would be chuckling by now for they were all very cute indeed!
She realised that she had been holding her breath because to see a Sanaan, which was the breed that Victoria was, would have set her back a pace or two by bringing back memories of a particularly unhappy period of her life.
But everything was ok, the day was warm, all the 'techy' folk were thrilled to see the goaty folk, Debbie sold some milk and cheese and then it was time to pack up and go home.
A very pleasant day out with non-humans!
The rest of the last few days has been very busy, she has been working in the shop and organising stuff at home to either donate, give away, put away or throw away!
She is giving away a beautiful chair, it needs a bit of work by re-springing but it is a lovely piece of furniture and why is she giving it away, you ask? Well, she can't keep everything and it needs to go to someone who will love and use this chair and so it is off down to Brighton to go to Katy.
And IS summer here, what do you think? She was putting winter clothes away with anti-moth stuff when it, from being sunny and warm, plunged backwards and down into low temperatures again!
Saturday was overcast and chilly-billy, she had to go to pick up milk from Debbie at Balham midday on Saturday and it 'thought' about raining or doing a quick bit of thunderstorm all day and yesterday was not much better.
But time can always be profitably spent, if you get down to it and the next post will tell you about something she found in a cupboard!
So there you have it, a week of goats and stuff, nothing dramatic but a pleasant week none the less.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 16th, 2014.
We are going back to last Wednesday, when we got up at some unearthly hour so that she could go to the allotments to pick Rosemary and other herbs for the goats.
That was the plan, but 'life' had other plans for her, the radio told us about the traffic which was gridlocked and backed up along the roads to the Hogarth Roundabout.
This is exactly the route she would have to take, so quick think, did the goaty folk already know about the herbs? She thought not, they can have them a other day as a surprise.
And so she left at a more civilised hour to meet Debbie of Ellie's Dairy. But en route a quick stop at our very local Italian Deli produced some delicious things, like the biscotti that Joe in Ottawa has been promising us the recipe, for how many years is it now Joe? Two or three!
It was a snap of a journey, very quick District Line to Ealing Broadway and main line to Heathrow and her getting off at Hayes & Harlington and a ten minute walk brought her to a space with greenlawns, nice amounts of tree planting and smart office blocks.
And a parked up Goat trailer FULL of goaty folk and their mum.. aka Debbie.
She had not really thought of how she would feel about talking to a goat again after fifty years, she had just thought that would be a fun thing to do but not considered her emotional response to the situation.
She greeted Debbie and then peered into the back of the trailer to find Husky, a year old and a veteran at jaunting about like this, she is grey and white and very people friendly.
In the front were four little kids, a band of three little brothers of mixed colours and a little black boy with white edgings to his face and ears.
If she was capable of putting photos on to my Blog, you, Dear Readers, would be chuckling by now for they were all very cute indeed!
She realised that she had been holding her breath because to see a Sanaan, which was the breed that Victoria was, would have set her back a pace or two by bringing back memories of a particularly unhappy period of her life.
But everything was ok, the day was warm, all the 'techy' folk were thrilled to see the goaty folk, Debbie sold some milk and cheese and then it was time to pack up and go home.
A very pleasant day out with non-humans!
The rest of the last few days has been very busy, she has been working in the shop and organising stuff at home to either donate, give away, put away or throw away!
She is giving away a beautiful chair, it needs a bit of work by re-springing but it is a lovely piece of furniture and why is she giving it away, you ask? Well, she can't keep everything and it needs to go to someone who will love and use this chair and so it is off down to Brighton to go to Katy.
And IS summer here, what do you think? She was putting winter clothes away with anti-moth stuff when it, from being sunny and warm, plunged backwards and down into low temperatures again!
Saturday was overcast and chilly-billy, she had to go to pick up milk from Debbie at Balham midday on Saturday and it 'thought' about raining or doing a quick bit of thunderstorm all day and yesterday was not much better.
But time can always be profitably spent, if you get down to it and the next post will tell you about something she found in a cupboard!
So there you have it, a week of goats and stuff, nothing dramatic but a pleasant week none the less.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 16th, 2014.
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