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I've been thinking about adding to the family with another dog, vaguely, for a couple of months. I knew if I did make the plunge I'd want another running dog to fit in with Rosie and Bertie, something about their size. So I've been looking at whippets and whippet type lurchers. Would I buy a...

Christmas hypos after their second shed

this year I've got some hard choices to make. I just can't keep back too many babies, as it is I've got to build new racks for when last year's keepers need bigger housing! I got 2 christmas hypos poss het diffused, they are going nowhere. the rest of faith's clutch include a christmas ghost...

This year I'm going to rest my usual females and will only be hoping for 4 clutches. Bronco Billy (het blood/Christmas) x Silk Miller (same hets) Bronco Billy x Faith Henley (same hets) Texas Pete (amel stripe) x Dixie Chicken (stripe) Lola (Christmas hypo) x Belle Starr (het...

One of my subadult corns, my stripe Dixie Chicken, escaped her new tub today and curled up on a tub in the adult rack. She'd managed to find some duct tape and get it firmly wrapped around her head. The tape went over one eye and around her jaws and was pulling her lower jaw and the skin of her...

First hook-up of the year, within seconds of being introduced, Lola my christmas hypo and Catle Kate my Love okeetee. I tried to get a shot but Kate objected!

On Saturday I took Rosie to meet her new little brother, an 8-month old Bedlington terrier called Bertie who was being rehabbed, after having had run into trouble in his first two homes as he didn't get on with being pulled about by small children. It was love at first sniff for Bertie and...

I've had some much-needed time off work, the weather has been beautiful, so I've been rampaging around the countryside and coast. Firstly, a trip to the reservoir to drown some maggots. I had quite a good day's fishing, 20 or so roach and perch. I did try lure fishing with a popper for pike...

I was going to take this year off from breeding, after last year's monster egg-haul and successful hatchings seemed hard work rather than fun. However, Spring is springing and I just can't not having at least the chance for pippies. So seeing Polly in such rude health, and Little Joe looking so...

Today I went to Rochester, one of the two cathedral towns in Kent (Canterbury is the other one). In Roman times it was called Durobrivae, the castle and city walls date back to the Normans and the cathedral was originally built by the Saxons. So, firstly, here's the high street as I walked from...

Yesterday Steve and I went for a hike along the cliffs at Dover, first calling in at St Margarets to see the pretty little houses overlooking the sea where Ian Fleming and Noel Coward both lived.

Yesterday I enjoyed an expedition through the wintery weather to visit Dungeness. It's an area of unique geological and ecological features, being one of the largest shingle expanses in the world. The wide open spaces are home to many rare plants, insects and birds, so there's a bird sanctuary...

My holiday didn't start smoothly, in fact thanks to an oversight by me it didn't start at all! I had convinced myself I was flying out on Friday, despite the booking confirmaions and my calendar saying otherwise. So I didn't get my flight Thursday evening, blissfully unaware of my mix-up until...

Just from the descriptions and the first photo I saw, I fell in love with the christmas hypo gene a few years back, and jumped at the chance to get a hatchling female I called Lola. Fast forwards a few years to the first season of breeding her, and it became evident that she was a he and I...

Now she's eaten 3 times, my keeper gets a name. The lovely result of pairing Polly with Twopersons, she doesn't seem to have inherited their evil bitey ways, just their beauty. From the moment she hatched, I was praying this particular corn would survive and thrive. Meet Fanny Mae

Today was blazingly hot, over 30 degrees, so I had a hankering to go to the beach. I've got some great beaches reached just a short train journey, but today I decided to ignore the bigger resorts and go to Whitstable. Famous for its oysters since Roman times, it's still got a thriving seafood...

I thought I knew the local stretch of the River Medway fairly well, but got a tip-off about a heronry that I'd never heard of fairly local to me. I've never visited a heronry before, so I got directions on how to get there and took the opportunity to plan a visit for Saturday. A short train ride...

Would it be possibe to have the display of members' rep points back? I really liked seeing people's rep points whizz up when I repped them. More usefully, when I was new here I used it as a way to gauge how members I didn't 'know' were regarded on the site, especially when I was asking for...

Still trying to get to grips with the settings, and I kept forgetting to turn off the 'antishake' for using the tripod, but I like these photos of Billy

Following on from Mike's 'castles' thread, I thought it might be nice to show each other where we live! I'm thinking we could all show the general area and any sights we visit regularly. So, to kick off, here's the estuary/country park, about 1/2 an hour's walk from me, where I go birdwatching...