Did someone mention the ‘S’ word?

24 April 2015

Chocolate Bunny is ecstatic that another trip to the specialist bunny vet has resulted in a prescription for more tablets to be delivered by..drumroll…sultanas! He loves this rabbity doctor and thinks the prescription could only be improved by changing the delivery medium to bananas. In light of the increased delivery of sultanas, he has almost forgiven his rabbit-focussed doctor for his predilection for tipping bunnies onto their backs and taking close up looks at areas that rarely see the light of day.

Motivation

23 April 2015

I may have the only horse in the world who works better in cyclonic conditions. With gale force winds howling and the rain sheeting down, Willo was uncharacteristically energetic in the dressage arena…today not so much.

Princess Sparkles

14 April 2015

Princess Sparkles’ bright and all-too-briefly shining lights have forever been extinguished. 

In sickness and in health

10 April 2015

As I looked out my window yesterday, there was one less chicken scratching around in the sun. Princess Sparkles was in the chicken hospital, fighting to hang on to life. She had a severe tracheal obstruction which left her gasping for air and her comb turning blue. After x-rays, a tube was inserted into an air sac to help her breathe, along with other treatment, but her Chicken Vet did not hold out much hope for her surviving.

Today, miracle of miracles, she is bright and eating and home (albeit with a wheeze and the breathing tube still in place). The Chicken Vet warned that she may lose her Top Chook position while she convalesces, but Princess Sparkles is made of sterner stuff. She has been happily pecking her chicken mates when they eat too much of her special treats designed to aid her recovery. We at Joyfallee are very happy (the happiness level of some residents being somewhat influenced by their access to chicken treats). 

Home is where the heart is

25 March 2015

Chocolate Bunny quite likes his new sign, but suggests it would more appropriately be placed on the front door of the Joyfallee house. 

Lateral thinker

21 March 2015

Hildegarde von Joyfallee is putting her skills learnt while practising to be a chicken spy to good use. She often manages to remain unobserved by her friends to scoff up the random pile of oats that descends on occasion from the heavens, thus avoiding the melee over the more obvious oats in a cup (a tussle from which she inevitably emerges the loser). To assist in her task she whispers a mantra that she is rather proud to have invented, lending heavily on ideas she picked up while reading about Arya in The Game of Thrones: “Black as a shadow, still as a salad sandwich, quiet as a feather duster”. 

Her invisibility-cloak-like ability doesn’t always stand her in good stead, however, and oftentimes sees her being trampled in a rush of chicken feet when the oat cup is emptied and the oat pile discovered.

Decor

6 March 2015

For the very latest in décor, it’s hard to go past the rabbit cushion as a must-have, up-to-the-minute lounge accessory. Rumour has it that contestants on the Block have snapped these up for their secret weapon room reveals.