Oh dear. Where to start?

 This is Sid

These are Avril and Michael, the wonderful people who contacted Walk with Donkeys, who contacted us and this is us picking Sid up with the amazing help of Ioannis from Neo Chorio who did the 136km trek for just the petrol money and a Campari and soda
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We had to let Sid out on the main road and walk him down to the farm

 His hooves were in a dreadful state.

 First things first. FOOD !

 A lot of work for Uncle Les, the farrier

 Fly bites all over him

 After applying the bright yellow anti-fly and healing cream go faster stripes

 On the way to the big field

 Half way there

 Banna comes to say hello

 Banna being VERY Arabian

 Ahhhhh. My favourite photo of the year so far.

 Oh, and we got 2 goslings. They are called Viv and Norm after Viki's parentals

 This was the interesting torture bridle that the donkey arrived with. 

 And then we went to Armenoi for a drink and had this puppy (she's called Bean) foisted upon us. The larger one is Joey, my mom's dog.

First chance to update the blog for ages. In a nutshell ...

We had some weird illness amongst the chickens and lost two of them. 

The pig had 9 piglets, but we lost one of those too.

We rescued a donkey

We got two goslings

We rescued a puppy

The first feed crop is now ready to cut

The first veg has been eaten

Hello again. Over a year since I posted and it has been "interesting". Money was tight and blogging was the last  thing on our minds. Sorry ! Will try to do better this time around.

We had a 6.3 earthquake here in Crete, which knocked down the front veranda as we were building our (outside) bathroom. A combination of our friend Rob Fraser building the steel framework (for free!) and paying a local roofer do do the tiling meant that we had some outside shelter in the winter

Banna the horse is still going strong at 30 years of age and after much work by our farrier Les Buckle, the donkey is almost walking normally. We have 3 new lambs and are expecting more soon and the dog population is now up to six. We also take care of 5 cats. All of the dogs and cats have been neutered.

We tried keeping a goat, but it was too destructive. We swapped it for a turkey.

We are growing feed now and are  just coming to the end of our winter crop. We are growing alfalfa and corn for the summer feed crop.

This is not easy.