A typical week at Em Nau

I was asked recently what a typical week was like for Heather and myself.  The answer to this question was “there is no such thing as a typical week for us as things can change without notice – and often do”.

Pressed further I came up with the following answer.

During Monday to Friday I wake at about 0345 and go through the morning routine of shaving and preparing to head off to my “day job”.  I normally leave between 0410 and 0420 to travel the 60 odd km int...

RIP Pats

Yesterday afternoon I arrive home to find Pats had died.  She, over the past two weeks since she had “come home”, had been slowly gaining her appetite back and had been wee-ing and poo-ing as you would have expected from a health calf.

Why she died we will probably never know but we are certain that she enjoyed the last couple of weeks of her short life.

Over the past couple of weeks she would walk around and graze on the grass in the calf enclosure, have a bit of bump and pus...