Why Would I Run This Website? Because I Like To Write.

I write this website purely because I like to write and want a place to publish it. I don’t think I write well enough to write a book that anyone will publish and I want to see my work public.

So here it is. Public. Whether anyone reads it or not is a different matter.

Isn’t writing a lot of fun? I like to write and I’ve done it for a long time now. And I still love to write as much as when I was young. I remember when I was young and at primary school I wrote so many different stories, I suspect my teacher got pretty bored reading all my stories. And he was  amazed that I could write quite so many when I was so young. But I’m not sure that I’m much good at it, I just like it.

I did a university degree when I got older, but it didn’t include writing, (but should have), I wish now it had. If I was young again and going to university again I’d think about doing some real study about the art of writing and learn more. I studied what I needed to to get a job, I just wish I’d studied what I liked to do instead.

I don’t  really know if I could ever have become good enough at writing to make a living at it, I just like it. But perhaps I could have tried it. If I had my chances again I’d try it, but you never get it again do you? Sad, though of course I could always go back to University.

Writing is a skill like any other skill. Of course you need to have a the desire to write, if you dont then youre not going to get far because its also work just like anything else, and if you dont enjoy it then you wont get far.

If you really love it then you’ll take the time you need to take to develop it till you’re good at it. It really will take time but I’m sure it can be done. You need to work on it every day but if you love doing it then that’s no problem. Every day is fine. (more…)

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If You Live Where I Live You’ve Got To Have Your Own Animals

I live in the country and I’ve done so for some years now and I love it. One of the reasons I live out here is that I like animals and out here I can have my own animals.

I have chickens and I love my chickens, I have about a dozen of them, and I get lots of eggs. But I also have cows.

I really like cows. Theyre so big yet they’re very gentle. In all the time Ive had cows I’ve never had a bad moment with  them. They aren’t aggressive and they are even tame enough so that even my kids can pat them a little bit, though they don’t like being patted all that much, they tend to pull back when you pat them. They just pull back a little thats all.

You won’t get to pat them much unless you’re feeding them their hay. They like hay and when the grass is short and there isn’t a lot because winter is coming and the grass isn’t growing. But I have a good supply of hay in the shed.

Now if you’re feeding hay to your cows then that’s the time to pat them, but it’s also a bit of a chore. You have to feed them every single day, without fail. Even if it’s raining you have to feed the cows their hay or they get grumpy. If you don’t they starve for the day and like me they don’t like starving.

I feed them all myself. I like my holidays though so  when you go away you have to have something to do about feeding the cows. You need a good system.

I  have a number of different fields fenced  off. I have a total of 7 fenced off. And if I have lots of grass in some then I shut the gates to that paddock so the grass doesn’t get eaten and keep it that way, then when I go away I’ve got a great paddock with lots of grass. I can open the gate and let the cows in for a week or so and I’ve got my cows fed properly while I’m away.

And when I open the gate to the paddock with the grass in it they’re in there as fast as they can go, because they’ve seen all that grass when they look through the gate and it’s right in front of them.

Then when I come back I put them out of that paddock and back into the one without grass and I start feeding them the hay  again.

Right after breakfast I feed them their breakfast hay. They get about 2 bales of hay every day but if it’s too cold I give them more bales of hay and they eat the lot. And they’re not silly, they know when feeding time  is, they’re waiting right out the front of the shed for their hay and they moo loudly if you’re late.

In fact this morning I gave them 3 bales of hay. But it’s getting warm soon and the grass is beginning to grow more and that’s good because I don’t have a lot of hay left in the shed now, enough, but not a lot. But that’s ok because I’ve got more grass growing. (more…)

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