my tadpoles are hatching!

Well, sort of. The spawn is now at that "comma-shaped" stage, but a few very brave early taddies are wriggling free.



Met this little chap yesterday - look at that face!

Spring lambs!

Walking through local fields on a footpath yesterday we spotted the first spring lambs out at pasture with their mums. "What a shame they're so far away" I said...but one lamb wanted to make friends!

Open day at the farm - everybody say "aaaah" at the little lambs!

Baby22 had been snuggling with the others under the heatlamp. Mum was absolutely certain that it was feeding time, and baahed at the gate for ages until he decided to come out.




Baby 23 was my favourite, he looked very new. When he stood up, his skin was all wrinkly. He looked like his mum had bought him new school clothes "to grow into"!



And now that you're all warm and cuddly - did you enter my giveaway yet? Here's the link

Niftyknits in Yarn Forward magazine!

I was browsing magazines while Mr Nifty bought a paper - Yarn Forward caught my eye.



I looked inside...



I know those sheep!



Yarn Forward commissioned the pattern a while ago, the very first NiftyKnits pattern to be published - doesn't it look fab? It's the June issue, available now (as I can prove!) If you can't wait, I have lambs available from my shops on Etsy, Folksy and Zibbet.

"my" lambs have grown!

Remember the lambs I blogged about way back in March?



Guess what? They've grown!



Not only have they grown - some of them now have new little baby brothers or sisters.



I love spring!

OLd McNifty went to the farm, E I E I O...

My local farm SILCOCKS had its open day yesterday.



The stars of the show were of course the animals, and these tiny piglets grabbed everyone's hearts. They're four days old!



Only one was brave enough to venture out of the trailer - and then he discovered that the ramp was too big a leap to get home.



The farmer told us each piglet likes to return to the same teat - they certainly weren't gentle! It brought tears to my eyes....



The older piglets were busy playing football or sleeping...now what does that remind me of? The little stuffed pig in this picture is a geocache travel bug whose mission is to visit farms. Now her task is done, we can move her on to another geocache.