Comments on: all creatures great and small http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/ Stories from a small organic farm in Devon Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:39:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: paula http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1282 paula Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:40:12 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1282 You have some totally stunning images of fabulous wildlife - so please can I return the compliment... You have some totally stunning images of fabulous wildlife - so please can I return the compliment…

]]> By: Jane http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1273 Jane Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:28:15 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1273 Brilliant pictures and amazing wildlife... I'm very envious! You look so peaceful on your hammock! I hope the holiday did you good. Jane Brilliant pictures and amazing wildlife… I’m very envious! You look so peaceful on your hammock! I hope the holiday did you good. Jane

]]> By: paula http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1231 paula Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:09:46 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1231 It seems all a bit dream-like now, as it's back to wellies and overalls, mud, rain, wind and...well, mud, rain and wind! Yes, the chocolate farm couple are remarkable and well into their seventies. They don't take guest, but delight in showing people around their holding, free...in payment you can buy some organic chocolate. What a hardship! We were staying at Dolphin Bay Hideaway http://www.dolphinbayhideaway.com/ The animals were very special - I would have liked to have found more! I have a cheap little Sony Cybershot 7.2 - it does me really well. I've never, ever taken photos before I had the blog, so I'm only learning. I thought I wouldn't be able to frame a small segment of what I see and convey what I wanted to. But Robert tells me I have the knack and have wasted years!! Ah well... It seems all a bit dream-like now, as it’s back to wellies and overalls, mud, rain, wind and…well, mud, rain and wind!

Yes, the chocolate farm couple are remarkable and well into their seventies. They don’t take guest, but delight in showing people around their holding, free…in payment you can buy some organic chocolate. What a hardship!

We were staying at Dolphin Bay Hideaway http://www.dolphinbayhideaway.com/

The animals were very special - I would have liked to have found more!

I have a cheap little Sony Cybershot 7.2 - it does me really well. I’ve never, ever taken photos before I had the blog, so I’m only learning. I thought I wouldn’t be able to frame a small segment of what I see and convey what I wanted to. But Robert tells me I have the knack and have wasted years!! Ah well…

]]> By: heidi http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1223 heidi Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:18:35 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1223 It's all so wonderful!! Iam sitting here listening to the wind and rain, still in my work clothes, boots, heavy socks, carharts (bib over-alls), thermal shirt, big wool sweater and there you are in your tropical glory warm and relaxed. Good on ya! The chocolate farmers sound like they are pretty groovy people, do they take in guests all year? I love all the animals, the kinga , how special was that to get to know such a being? Excellent pics, what kind of camera are you using? It’s all so wonderful!! Iam sitting here listening to the wind and rain, still in my work clothes, boots, heavy socks, carharts (bib over-alls), thermal shirt, big wool sweater and there you are in your tropical glory warm and relaxed.
Good on ya!
The chocolate farmers sound like they are pretty groovy people, do they take in guests all year?
I love all the animals, the kinga , how special was that to get to know such a being?
Excellent pics, what kind of camera are you using?

]]> By: paula http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1221 paula Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:41:33 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1221 PS - Mary, I'll take a photo of it in all it's winter working glory! PS - Mary, I’ll take a photo of it in all it’s winter working glory!

]]> By: paula http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1220 paula Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:39:40 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1220 Yes hugely lucky Mary. Kingajou is a wild thing - apparently they are favoured animals to take out of the wild when babies and try to make domesticated. Unfortunately they are not good at being tamed, you can't housetrain them and they are totally nocturnal and can be very destructive in domestic situations - so folk get tired of them and keep them caged in appalling conditions. This Kinga was a rescued one. The couple who owned the chocolate farm had an ocelot (another animal they take as cubs, and can’t cope with as they grow) again rescued. These two animals have enough freedom to return to the wild if they build up the confidence and if they haven’t become too imprinted. In the meantime they are well looked after. Ah ha - my bobcat is my right-hand man, my mechanical farm worker. I panic if it breaks! It's a skid machine, so it turns on a sixpence and has hydraulic arms for attachments such as scrapers, buckets, grabs etc. Weighs in at about 3 tonnes. Yes hugely lucky Mary.
Kingajou is a wild thing - apparently they are favoured animals to take out of the wild when babies and try to make domesticated. Unfortunately they are not good at being tamed, you can’t housetrain them and they are totally nocturnal and can be very destructive in domestic situations - so folk get tired of them and keep them caged in appalling conditions. This Kinga was a rescued one. The couple who owned the chocolate farm had an ocelot (another animal they take as cubs, and can’t cope with as they grow) again rescued. These two animals have enough freedom to return to the wild if they build up the confidence and if they haven’t become too imprinted. In the meantime they are well looked after.

Ah ha - my bobcat is my right-hand man, my mechanical farm worker. I panic if it breaks! It’s a skid machine, so it turns on a sixpence and has hydraulic arms for attachments such as scrapers, buckets, grabs etc. Weighs in at about 3 tonnes.

]]> By: mary http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/all-creatures-great-and-small/#comment-1217 mary Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:07:53 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/?p=434#comment-1217 It is so good that you relaxed and fell to sleep in the warmth with the open book awaiting your reawakening. Weren't you the lucky one to see close up so many wonders of nature. Absolutely beautiful animals, birds and locations. The holiday of a lifetime. I had never heard of the kingajou - was he a sort of domesticated wild thing? It must be a shock to be back in the old routine and the mud. You refer to the bobcat a lot - is it a sort of mini tractor? It is so good that you relaxed and fell to sleep in the warmth with the open book awaiting your reawakening. Weren’t you the lucky one to see close up so many wonders of nature. Absolutely beautiful animals, birds and locations. The holiday of a lifetime. I had never heard of the kingajou - was he a sort of domesticated wild thing?

It must be a shock to be back in the old routine and the mud. You refer to the bobcat a lot - is it a sort of mini tractor?

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