Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Michael the collie is alive.

???? Is the new diary up already?....I am off to google...

fc123

New Diary Entry

I ran over to where Michael was lying prone on the grass. I touched his head; my hand came away covered in blood. I don’t think Lizzie even knew she had trampled him. He was still breathing, and he slowly opened one eye. He had a cut lip, and a massive lump on his head. I tried to pick him up, but I couldn’t even lift him an inch above the now sodden grass. Sodding pilates! I want my money back! I phoned Nic, who was on the yard with Poor Dream. ‘Nic!’ I screamed. ‘What is it? Is it one of the horses?’ ‘No, it’s Michael. He’s been trampled by Lizzie!’
Nic is very good in a crisis. She immediately snapped her phone shut, jumped in her 4x4 and hurtled down the lane. After what seemed like an hour but was probably more like five minutes, she was bumping across the field. I got in, and she placed Michael on my lap. I phoned ahead to the vet and, thank God, he was standing outside his clinic when we got there. He examined Michael, and said there was no obvious damage. He could have a brain haemorrhage, but we won’t know for about 24 hours. He is to be kept quiet, and monitored closely in case he vomits, or becomes drowsy. He was quite enjoying the attention, to be honest, and put in the odd subtle, somnolent wag.

I’m surprised one of the dogs hasn’t been trampled before. The puppies are always circling the horses, hanging on to their tails, herding them. I am going to have to try to keep them all separate, but God only knows how.
He was still breathing, and slowly opened one eye.
He had a cut lip, and a massive lump on his head



The next day, I left Michael languishing on the sofa in the sitting room while I took the puppies and Jess into the woods that are now carpeted with late bluebells. I could hear Mini Puppy barking in the distance, and followed the noise. I found her guarding a sheep with twin lambs; they must have got into my fields somehow. There are lambs in all the neighbouring fields at the moment; at night their cries sound like babies. I can’t bear the thought that they will all soon be taken for slaughter; they have tiny, curly smiles, and are so happy to be alive. The ewe was on the edge of a precipice, her lambs huddled under her belly, her udder swollen with milk. The lambs have really sweet black faces and black knees.


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treliac

fc123 wrote: »

???? Is the new diary up already?....I am off to google...

I must admit to some mystification as to the interest she generates. Wonder, too, whether she knows there is a long-standing forum thread devoted entirely to her. :think:

fc123

treliac wrote: »

I must admit to some mystification as to the interest she generates. Wonder, too, whether she knows there is a long-standing forum thread devoted entirely to her. :think:

I know :rotfl::rotfl:I confess I am now hooked like my old MIL is to Eastenders and Corrie and Emmerdale ....

The digital spy thread is quite entertaining.
I don't think this board comes up on Google search since it went 'members only' ..or does google robot everything?

fc123

I went to Surrey today and long train journey ...gave in and bought A Mail....and in review was a lady who has written The Chicken Diaries about rearing chickens....I just did a search and can't find it. Where's the board google sniffer dogs?
Not a patch on LIR's Chickn Diaries but I get Ninkies point about writing style and how to catch your reader.....quite a nack it seems.

fc123

This is her blog .......could have been a blog that became a book...I will admit to coming over wannabe Vegan when she described trying to wring her first neck, failing and having to grab an axe instead.

ETA ..I think this is the wrong chicken diary...in fact there ae loads including a virtual life one (?!)

fc123

A blank wordpress blog all ready to go for someone.

SingleSue

I've sometimes been tempted to do a blog of the fun and games of having autistic kids...but then I think that maybe it could be a tad boring.

vivatifosi

And if this doesn't sound like an accident waiting to happen I don't know what does...

I’m surprised one of the dogs hasn’t been trampled before. The puppies are always circling the horses, hanging on to their tails, herding them. I am going to have to try to keep them all separate, but God only knows how.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

And if this doesn't sound like an accident waiting to happen I don't know what does...

I’m surprised one of the dogs hasn’t been trampled before. The puppies are always circling the horses, hanging on to their tails, herding them. I am going to have to try to keep them all separate, but God only knows how.

I could only tye the ne line earlier, because of that line in her piece. It helps no one and risks making her dogs and horses a danger to their own lives, the horses' lives, other livestock, herself and any other rider who pass her gate.