Autumn Leaves

We divided half of the herd from the poly tunnel to the paddock, I enjoyed watching them take to the green pasture; those remaining in the poly tunnel (mostly castrated lambs) will be sold at the cattle market as store lambs.

Decorating the farmhouse reception room has progressed significantly, in the evening I painted the borders and rolled emulsion onto the celling. There are still fragments of wallpaper everywhere; stuck to the sofa, in-between the cushions, on skirting boards etc, I'm finding this formality quite annoying.

Arriving into Hawick I got Charlie to pull over the 4x4 to allow me to take a few pictures of the autumnal bronzes displayed on the trees near Wilton Lodge Park. The wee lane is busy most mornings with walkers, dog walkers and joggers, noticeable happy pensioners seemingly paired together, perhaps in correspondence sake of sustaining memory. In the evening we had planned to have a bonfire, burning I Guy Fawkes on the paddock, but were too tired from performing chores of the day; Morrisons supermarket had also sold out of sparklers, and we thought better, in mind of livestock, than to let off fireworks within the Borthwick Valley.

I am enjoying using a language app named Duolingo immensely, this evening I failed, by a mere hundred "XP" to get promoted into the next league after coming first in the previous league. I am learning French, and plan also to learn German and a Scandinavian language also.