The Coat

Monday was a really clarty old day, that's a grand old word and for those of you who don't speak Yorkshire it means dull and dirty. We were certainly the latter by the end of it, digging through the north border in a steady drizzle, thank goodness we had Shandy to help us raise a smile. Firstly she caught a baby rabbit and came trotting over to show us, we dutifully praised her efforts but had to put a downer on her day when she kept on trying to bury it in the patch we were digging over, somewhat disgruntled she eventually settled down to eat it in case we tried to steal it I think! Tea-break saw Giles produce a surprise for her from out of his basket, she has been prone to fits of shivering lately when she's run out of energy from critter chasing so Carol, Giles's wife had bought her a little coat. I'm not sure if she was too pleased to be swaddled up but we were all having fits of giggles at the expression on her little black face. A spot of apple picking in the rain was also enlivened by her antics later, when Giles climbed the tree and started throwing us girls an apple each to place in the basket she cried until every forth apple was thrown to her, she definitely is one of the team!

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results" Anon