Janet and Her New Friends

Any doggie in their right mind would think that their Mistress would be sick with grief from being separated from their doggies.  Perhaps Janet is sick with grief, but she is soldiering on in a major way.

These are the cute ducks at their cottage who came running over with the prospect of Janet having food.  She went back and got a piece of (whole grain!) bread and went back to feed them.  After they started to eat, Janet thought the area above the breast on the female looked swollen and became worried that perhaps they shouldn't eat bread.  Phil checked with the caretaker who said they eat bread all the time, so no worries!

Next stop - The Donkey Farm.  Janet LOVES donkeys.  They also had some goats, small ponies, chickens. ducks and a couple of sheep.  Janet also LOVES all those animals as well.

Close enough yet, buddy?  Janet had some donkey and goat food that she was handing out.  This goat guy was clearly not going to miss out on his turn and kept head butting Janet every 10 seconds or so!

A complete stranger took this photo of Janet feeding the donkeys as Phil considered it to be a complete waste of time (and he is way too cheap) to visit the Donkey Farm.   Janet says he was so wrong!  That's the head butter at the bottom.

 They also went to see Wells Cathedral that they said was spectacular.

 Janet had decided she was going to go to Evensong at 5:15PM as it's supposed to be very beautiful.  Not being church goers, they really don't know anything about the goings on at church or proper church protocal.  Janet wanted a seat near the back so she could leave after a few minutes of hearing the singing.  First seat she chose was an ill choice as someone came to ask her if she was part of the choir.  Whoops!  So then she chose a seat even closer to the rear which turned out to be a seat for a church official.  Whoops again!  In the end, Janet decided it was best to listen to Evensong outside in the main part of the Cathedral.

Beautiful cushion and back in Wells Cathedral.  Most likely behind where the choir sits!

 Last, and for sure not least, Janet's long held dream comes true - she gets to meet Ming and Molly from Great Chalfield Manor.  The Manor is a National Trust property and Ming's blog was the inspiration for our blog.  They were tucked up by the fire in the private part of the house, but a worker was kind enough to ask if they could come out for a photo op.  Also, the Lord of the Manor came out to speak to us and asked Phil if he could send him some photos of Burrard Inlet as a member of his family in the past was married to Capt. Burrard.

Hard to believe she could look that happy whilst missing us! See how British we are coming - whilst!?!

Ming is a super, super cute doggie!  Molly's pretty cute too.

By the way, Great Chalfield Manor tour was also pretty exceptional!