Hi, Your comments are always most welcome
Hi Sue,
glad to see you are back.
Heifers are inquisitive animals - much like their human counterparts (pree-teen girls) Lucky for the farmer they don't develop the bad habits of the teenage human female (hours in the shower and sulking in their bedroom) 
I hope you were watching something educational for them to enjoy!!!
I was out learning how to be a blacksmith.
F O R
Ron, I can tell you live in a house of all females!! That is the price you pay of course, and I wonder if you get fined for leaving the loo seat up?!!!! 
Nice to hear from you again, hope all is well, and yes we had Eastenders on when the heifers were watching the tele, can't get more english or eductaional than that! 
Hello Sue,
Your dovecote ladder is called a 'poten' and was used every day to travel round and collect the eggs, a staple diet in medeival times.
I miss my canal boating after fourty years. Good Luck. Max
The doves would feed on somebody elses crops, the poor labourers, and provide the landlord with free eggs.
Nice dovecote at Avoncroft Museum of Buildings on the W&B Canal where I worked the windmill for many years after retiring from the Motor Industry.
