I had no idea it had been so long since I logged on to this account. I had a terminally ill lap top that finally died a couple of months or so ago, since then I've managed to catch up with my main DA account. Now I need to do some updates on this account...

The most exciting news is one our ducks eggs hatched today and we now have at least one duckling
Edit: we now have 5 little ducks, here's a pic of two of them swimming [link]

We have finally done some more work on the barn - I have new pictures and will get around to uploading them - the biggest problem I had was the time it took to upload anything to the internet - you'll appreciate that my business website came first as that is supposed to generate income. When the latest version of DA was loaded my old lap top just couldn't cope - well it could - VERY SLOWLY - and I'm one of those impatient people that couldn't cope with the wait. You'll be pleased to hear that I got a brand new whizzy high spec computer that does everything I want it to in real time - no waiting for the screen to catch up with my typing... I did get it VERY cheaply because it had no operating system and no monitor - I figured an old monitor would be up to the job - it is! and my lap top software disks would be licensed for this PC as the lap top is dead. I have since bought an adaptor that will hopefully allow me to access the lap top hard disk - if that's the case, I'll be archiving the old files - just in case I missed copying anything when it was on it's death bed and reformatting the drive to use it as additional backup storage space - either way I only have one copy of the software running and therefore am licensed