Cows on the loose!

Our Sunday night became quite entertaining this week. After a relatively boring day working I left the shower o hear Nick saying "oh no" in a very serious voice and heard the sliding door in our bedroom open. My immediate thought was that someone had had an accident on the highway coming on to the farm so I was very surprised to run outside and in the dark see hundreds of cows in our garden and surrounding area. Nick ran out barefoot to close the gate to our drive before any decided to make a dash for the highway's grass. We both got dressed and in our shoes before heading outside by phone torch light to try and round them up. Nick rung his colleague to come and help us who showed up on his bike pretty quickly. Luckily the cows seemed to know exactly where they were meant to be and were easily herded back into their paddock, especially with two bikes encouraging them. They'd actually rammed down a gate to get to the area by our house and we believe someone must not of given them enough grass in their fenced out area causing them to find more elsewhere. The worse part of the experience was when Nick realised he'd lost his black phone somewhere outside in the pitch black with knee high grass everywhere. By calling the phone repeatedly we luckily found it in the end. We also went to have our medical examinations done this week which took hardly any time at all. We'd been booked in as two 45 minute appointments but we were actually both finished within 40 minutes. Looking back I wish we had asked for some money off for this reason because the price was extortionate for what it was. After the appointment we went and had our bloods taken which was the final stage to the medical side of our visa extension. With all this completed and our applications in the post it's just a case of waiting to see what happens next. We treated ourselves to some breakfast afterwards and it was nice to have that sit down time together away from home. Work has been pretty uneventful apart from having my first go at icing the gingerbread men. It's not that it is hard, it just never fell at a conviennient time for me to do it before now. Marcia was treated to a unicorn this week on her coffee. She loved it and so did everyone at work. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it to the end of my working time with a new idea everyday. Luckily she's coming in less and less because I really am running out of animals to create!Leer más