Here is a foto of Corinne with the flowers and chocolates that her wonderful mother sent her from the Colonies. They are a beautiful bunch from the best florist in Leamington. It is Corinnes Birthday tomorrow and we are celebrating tonight and tomorrow and possibly all weekend.
Corinne looks a bit tired as she has just driven 1hr from wonderful (not) Birmingham after a full days work and a night on call.
Here are some pictures of spring in Hunningham. All the bare trees and hedges suddenly have leaves on them and the baby bunnies come out, the lambs, the birds are frisky the temperatures rise (23 today - amazing). It is really enjoyable being in the country to see the changes as they are much more spectacular here than in the city (shity).
A man made canal near our house. Built during the industrial revolution to move stuff about.
A lock in the Canal
A Canada Goose on her nest by the canal.
A local pig
Some Lambies relaxing in the sun looking very tasty
A fine example of a young female scottish horse vet - Katrina.
A male pheasant trying to hide in the Oil seed rape or canola as we call it in Australia.
We have been a bit slack and slow but here is the final episode of our holiday in December and January. We spent the last four days of our trip in New York. We stayed in the Wellington hotel which is very central to all the goodies like central park, times square and much more. We looked all around Manhattan, took a ferry out to the Statue of Liberty, went up the empire state building at night, ate a few street vendor kebabs, had some great japanese and italian food, shopped, and did a lot of other touristy things. It is a cool place with a lot to see and very different from the others areas we saw in the US and Canada. We went to little Italy one night for a pizza, we caught the subway all over the place and we even saw the movie "Cloverfield" while we were there, which is set in manhattan. We found the people to be the rudest of our trip with very little time for slow aussies - But we loved it all anyway
Times Square at night - big, bright, busy, boisterous and other alliterations
More times square
Me in Central Park - shite weather while we were there.
A busy little NY squirrel gathering more oak leaves for his dram (squirrel nest).
The great big lady of liberty looking very green.
A view across the great lake in Central Park with a view of the mid-upper east side in th background.
Corinne - cold and tired and ready for a snooze.
Corinne devouring another kebab/pita bread type thing from a street vendor - they were very very good and only 2-3$
Here are yet more pictures of birds in our yard. Below is a Wood Pigeon - very large birds almost like chickens with voracious appetites. They are good looking birds but eating machines and commonly shot in the area for destroying crops. The second picture is a better close up of the pheasant.
Over the Weekend Liv and Downy came to visit us. The weather report said cold change but we did not expect this much change. We woke up Sunday morning hung over to the max and surrounded by snow - very pretty and cold for all the lambs.
Snow woman
Our Backyard
The paddock across the road with the lambs
