Needwood Blade - Bold Bunny

 

Celia sold a colt foal today at Tattersalls.

Lot 548 wasn't the top lot of the day (it was sixth!), but it gave us all a lot of satisfaction as the rather nice Needwood Blade colt out of the unlucky Bold Bunny, sold for forty thousand guineas.

Making Tracks

 

The picture shows some of the tracks we're putting in for the buggy.

Golf Buggy

 

We now have a golf buggy which we have acquired from Weatherley Buggies.


It is electric and has been modified with a carrying box on the back.

Although here Celia is using it for transport with Anna and Wilma in the box on the back, there are a lot of uses around the stud from feeding to carrying tools and other bits and pieces.

Celia - 2

 

Celia is now at home and she has a squamous cell carcinoma of the heart. The prognosis is not good.

The Stud Network

 

The new offices are connected to the existing stud network through a simple wireless bridge in the attic above the workshop.


Note that all the network points are traced back to this point and a simple wireless access point is used to connect to the aerial on the chimney.

Underfloor Central Heating

 

We have electric underfloor central heating in the new office and it is controlled by the usual type of thermostat. I would have perhaps preferred one that connected into the wireless network for the stud, so that the heating could be controlled by the computer. That way, you'd probably save even more money on the heating.

We're bound to lose the manual of the controllers.

But they are elements eStat 761/762 controllers.

The manual is on the Internet and it's here.

Anna and Lizzie - 2

 

A second video of Anna playing with Lizzie.

Anna and Lizzie

 

This is Anna playing and enjoying herself in the front garden with Lizzie the basset hound.


Note that this video was taken on a Fuji S5700, which is not the most sophisticated of cameras, but it can take about thirty minutes of video on a 2Gb SD card. The video was then uploaded to YouTube, cutting and pasting the code into this blog.

It's that's simple.

Celia

 

Currently, Celia is in Papworth Hospital, where she is undergoing tests for blocked ventricles in her heart. She has had lots of messages of support and we thank everybody who has sent one.

Please don't send any flowers, but I'm sure she'd like a card.

I think it best if you send them to home at East Green Farm, Great Bradley, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9LU.

I shall post more details as appropriate.

New Puppy - Anna

 

These are three pictures of the new English Setter puppy called Anna. She is eight weeks old.

Nearly Finished

 

The offices are now painted and nearly finished.


We'll all be glad to get in.

LED Floodlights

 

We've just replaced the outside light which is on all night with an LED floodlight from Savenergi.com.


It looks good and produces almost as much light as the halogen it replaced. But energy costs are about £9 a year instead of about £81.

The picture below shows the light it replaced.