QUeens Birthday weekend

Well, this weekend was a long one (three days), so Steph and I set out to get a few jobs done, as you can see from the first photo, I laid waste to another tree, a big plum tree (we never got the plums, it was too big), but now we have unfetered views of the hill behind us, and it really opens up the back garden (to the tune of a few hundred acres, shame it isn't ours).
The only down side was that the chainsaw decided to break 1/2 way through, so I ended up limbing the plum tree with a small pruning saw (and will continue to do so, until next pay day, damn these three fortnight months).
Sunday, I decided to rediscover the garage, wow, what a mamoth effort, after an entire day, and a full trailer of rubbish and recycling, we can now see the floor. The rat I caught in the live trap on Monday, turned out to be a mum of 3, which is good, that's 3 more for the price of 1.
On Monday morning, I dismantled an ewe for cat food, and then around 2pm headed down to the coast for a spot of kite fishing, since it's been a while, only caught 2 red cod, but they will go nicely into the cat food too.

Oh, on the goat front, it was suspected that it was Johnes disease which is fatal, and contagous to all ruminant. After a blood test, it turns out that she is negative for Johnes (phew). She just had a high worm burden, she and the rest of the flock has been drenched, and hopefully will make a full recovery.

I've been pestered a bit for some photos of Connor, so here are a few.