Finally located Andreas (the man with the tractor) yesterday. He has suggested growing alfalfa on about 1/2 an acre for a few months. This should provide huge wodges of winter feed for the sheep and horse. Andreas also informed me that my mate Takis has an industrial baling machine. We can start planting veg at the end of March/early April and then some clover in the big field and then plant corn after the alfalfa is harvested. We should get at least 5 cuts of clover which we can bale and store, and then it grows for about 5 years every summer without re-seeding. Result.

Great news for Banna. The dentist and equine vet are coming on Friday. Well done to Viki for chasing that down. Just looking forward to seeing him be able to eat without dropping half of it. Poor old Banna can't even eat a polo mint without dropping it. Bless.

We now have an extra laying chicken, and as the gang of 7 are all the same age, we should be up to 10 eggs a day fairly soon.

We would have already been there, were it not for Jaco ........