Murton Farm and Wildlife trust

http://www.murtonwildlife.org.uk/

Murton Wildlife Trust is a charitable organisation, it's an important educational centre that is open to the public. It provides land-based education to children and young people, especially those young adults who do not thrive in the classroom situation. The experience these young people gain gives them work based skills and social skills in preparation for gaining employment. Many of the young people from our school go there regularly, sometimes full time, sometimes part time.
As well as being an educational center its also open to the public. My grandson is ten and my friends son is 8, we took them both there while I had my grandson staying. They had a wonderful time and were particularly impressed with the ferrets.

New Computer Up and Running.

At last...........here I sit, finally, in my own home and on my own computer. I resorted to buying a new (reconditioned) computer from eBay and it was delivered today. I managed to keep the old keyboard and monitor etc which kept the cost down quite a but so guess it could have been worse. The good news is....the new computer seems good, so far its fast and does exactly what I ask it to do first time and without bother. Just hope it continues to behave as perfectly as it does now. I've spent the evening feeding it software and installing printer, scanner burner and other assorted bits and pieces. And now.............well.............time to start catching up with things.

The holiday was great, so nice to get away for a while and catch up with my sisters who I don't see very often.

They live about 600 miles south of here and for me................that's too far to visit very often.

I took my daughter and her daughter and we managed to spend some time with my sisters granddaughters ( 2 year old twins). I last saw them as tiny babies and now they are toddlers who are lots of fun but into every thing.

The day they visited they found some old hats and had a wonderful time with them.

My sisters daughter is a very grown up young lady of 17 and my granddaughter followed her around, there seemed to be some hero worship going on, nails painted, hair tonged, cakes baked together..........she had a great time (I think they both did).

 
There was the day at the park that I've already mentioned. It was a fantastic day and left me with a growing urge to keep chickens.

Not sure why but I really like the idea of fresh free range eggs and feeding the chocks every morning.

Sure there must be more to it than that but it is an appealing idea and i'm sure that even with my tiny garden there should be enough space for just a couple of chocks.


The first thing I noticed about my garden was the forget-me-nots had flowered while I was away. I just love those forget-me-nots !!

My neighbours must be wondering why I have a bath, basin and toilet in my garden, they are not new but they are very good quality and in great condition and my daughters decided they would look so much better in my bathroom than my old (but perfectly serviceable) 1970's green bathroom set. They did the lifting and delivery and they plan on doing all the plumbing  for me so guess it will be ok and I should be grateful. I don't mind the green, I think in ten years time people are going to be putting them back in to houses and calling it 'retro'

Anyway.........I've been thinking about this and decided the green bath, once it's out of my bathroom, will make a perfect wild life pond with frogs and toads and dragonflies and water plants. Now I am really looking forward to getting a wild life pond in my garden and it certainly makes to upheaval of having a bathroom plumbed all worth while. Not exactly what my daughters had in mind, they were looking forward to taking the old bath etc to the tip.

I am hoping they put off the plumbing until the kitchen is totally finished. The kitchen seems to have been on going for months but it is almost there, just have to get they guy back to do the work tops on the other side of the kitchen and put up my shelf unit. That's all pretty straight forward compared to what I've already had done and it should all be sorted very soon.

And now it's getting late and I'll have to drag my self away from my new computer and head toward bed...........work again tomorrow, its just so so wonderful to be able to sit here and in my own house on my own computer........utter bliss.
Night all..........will be doing my best to catch up with every one very soon.

Back from my Holiday but still sitting in the Library !!

 

 

Sad but true.............still no computer at home! So here I sit in the public library downloading all my holiday pics into flickr and attempting to catch up with a few people.  The situation is, the laptop is not salvagable and the desk-top looks like it has suffered the same fate. I have managed to find a reconditioned desktop on eBay fairly cheap. Think I can still use the monitor, keyboard and mouse that I have so hopefully the eBay find will solve my problems, all I am wauting for now is a delivery date. Lets hope it's soon.

The holiday was just what I needed, some time out with family, lots of food, lots of wine and lots of chat. My sisters and their respective families are a hospitibal lot and it has been a while so there was a lot of catching up to do.

We had a pretty amazing day out with my grandaughter to a place called West Lodge Farm Park where she fed lambs, stroked pigs and generally had a great time. I'm hoping if I bring photos over here from flickr you can see them.......oh this not having a computer at home is very inconvenient, can't wait for the new one to arrive so every thing can go back to normal.

This was the highlight of the holiday for my granddaughter..............she loved it, check it out;

 

http://www.westlodgeruralcentre.co.uk