Luz, Jennifer’s mum came over to help Jen after the birth of Eric, and with Luz came Jennifer’s niece, Mikee, 5 years old. She would spend 6 months with us before going back with her grandmother. We spent most of the time at Knightstone and around Devon.
Mikee came to us for six months together with her grandma - Lola - when Eric was born. Here Mikee and I had ventured out to Lyme Regis
Our newest additions to the Animal Farm - two pygmy goats that came six weeks ago. We called them Christmas Cracker (left) and Christmas Dinner (right)- Christmas Cracker in the field
- We also had two Llamas, Jan and Eric. Jan is saying hello to Christmas Cracker
- Two llamas, two pygmy goats and one Jacob's sheep. The other sheep is grazing behind the camera
- Mikee in the garden
- Eric sleeping outside two weeks old
- Mikee, Jen and Eric
- Eric looking at mum. He is 16 days old
- Holding hands
- Mother and son
- Mikee in the park
- This part of the park became a popular playground and we have now some years later built a tree house in one of the trees from which Mikee is swinging
- We visited our friends Ian and Lyndsey at their alpaca farm. Mikee and their daughter Isabel are feedingthe alpacas
- Under Camilla's supervision Mikee went riding on Isabel's pony
- ...while the alpacas checked out Jennifer and little Eric
- Isabel and Mikee with the alpacas
- Eric is here nearly a month old
- Mikee and Nallah in Exmoor at the Tarr steps
- In Lola's lap
- Chucky guarding Eric, now a month old
- Lola (=grandma) has just given Eric his bath
- Our first whole day outing with Eric Gregory went to Longleat, with its grand house.
- Riza (Eric's nanny), Luz, Jennifer, Eric (in the pram) and Mikee in front at Longleat House
- The drive through safari park was the highlight for Mikee
- The deer park
- Mikee and I took a miniature train around the grounds of Longleat
- Mikee in train-ing.
- The Rose Garden at Knightstone
- The fountain in the rose garden
- The vegetable garden. The greenhouse is in the background and beyond the fence are berries and fruit trees and the chicken run
- The park at Knightstone. The trees we planted some years ago are slowly growing up
- Eric at rest in the garden, five weeks old
- The Manor from the hill in the park.
- The last sunrays over the park and the mist starts to cover the western hills
