First cows, now it's invading sheep

After last week's eventful Sunday night with escaping cows I had a mini panic when I pulled onto the drive to find our gate closed. Automatically I thought the cows had gotten out again but to my surprise this time it was a herd of sheep who decided to visit our garden. They'd escape onto the highway from a paddock down the road and a passing car managed to herd them into our driveway to make sure they were off the road and out of harms way. Luckily Nick was home and he tracked down the owner and within an hour or so the guy turned up to reclaim his sheep. We live on a 100kmph stretch of highway that has two bends at the end of the couple hundred metre stretch so getting the sheep back across the road needed to be a speedy process. The only up side is that because the cars are travelling so fast you can hear them approaching with plenty of warning before they are upon you. We made a make-shift pen on our side of the road and rounded them all up into it and once the road was clear Nick opened the gate and we ushered them across the road into the gate they'd come from. All these animals escaping are providing us with some evening entertainment and we're secretly hoping next week brings us runaway chickens! There's been a huge explosion of cabbage white butterflies and when I say huge I mean thousands. It's actually quite nice to sit on our sofa looking out through the sliding doors watching them all dance around the greenery. I've been trying to photograph one up close and this week I finally managed to get a few snaps. After Marcia's unicorn on her coffee last week of course she came back wanting more and this time I went for a zebra. Pretty similar so it was easy to create this time and her camera was out before it had even touched down on the table, she was that pleased with it. I think she's not looking forward to me leaving especially when one of my colleagues doesn't give her any pictures at all, despite being asked for one. Also this week, similarly to back home, the shops are flooded with easter eggs and gifts so we decided to treat ourselves to our first easter egg which of course had to be crunchie. We were both very excited, so excited we forgot that chocolate here is nothing like it is back home so it was utterly over sweet and disappointing. I think we'll have to try and get a different brand at some point otherwise it just won't feel like easter at all without a decent egg!Baca lagi