For the first time since before the Foot and Mouth year, cattle on the common behind our house (not just on Midsummer Common but on our bit)!
This is good news not just because they are beautiful, and make nice noises,
but because it means the council will not have to mow with a machine (and the nettles and brambles will be better controlled than with one mowing per year which is what we have been getting).They were extremely frisky when they first appeared
and galloped back and forth trying to discover what was what (somewhat to the amusement and concern of the students in Barnwell Hostel, into whose windows the cows—well, rather steers—were peering). But now they seem to have settled down happily in a shady patch of cow parsley....
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Yay! Welcome back moo-cows :)
I'm a bit disappointed to discover that evidently these cows don't eat nettles. I watched one this morning very cleverly nosing around in a patch of nettles and deftly sifting out only grass and juicy cow parsley from among the nettles. Not one of them seems to have eaten any nettles yet.
This seems to me to be less good news than I thought...
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