easter lamb by jantan

easter lamb

Picked Angus up at 11ish, He was still in one piece, and after a quadruple portion of chocolate Shreddies he went to bed and didn't emerge until 6.30pm, so I am guessing that he had a good time at his party.

While Graham did the three hour round trip to Doncaster to visit his Mum who hasn't been well, I marbled the shells of some hard boiled eggs. They looked really pretty. I did try to photograph the results, but the photos looked dreadful so it's an Easter lamb shot today instead.

I planted the dyed eggs in one of the nest boxes in our hen house and called a couple of friends who have young children asking if they would like to come and collect the eggs for me. When they got here I told them that sometimes at Easter our chickens lay special eggs. They were delighted when they found them, and even more so when the discovered the Creme Eggs that the Easter Bunny had mysteriously left in the boxes on the opposite side of the hen house. Such fun, where did those days go.....

When Graham got home we had a piece of belly pork that had been roasting in a very low oven in the Aga for the past 24 hours. All of the fat had come out of it and you could have eaten it with a spoon - yum!
Baa ... lovely!
April 1st, 2013  
Beautiful shot!
April 1st, 2013  
Cute shot! Sounds like a wonderful day.
April 1st, 2013  
Terrific the way lambie is caught in the light
April 1st, 2013  
What a thoughtful person you are to do that for the children. Cute shot.
April 1st, 2013  
such fun stories. i love your photos and your stories just as much. when my son was little, he was always worried about the fact that the easter bunny took eggs from some hens that we knew at the time. he thought we should standn guard the day before easter.
April 1st, 2013  
Lovely soft light on this baby.
April 1st, 2013  
Love this lamb! He is smiling for you! Great light and composition! Sounds like a lovely day!
April 1st, 2013  
Beautiful lamb - great story!! Lovely light and composition!!
April 1st, 2013  
Lovely shot of this little sweetie !! love the hazy background
April 1st, 2013  
great lighting
April 1st, 2013  
What a cute shot...love lambs...your meal sounds delicious.
April 1st, 2013  
Sounds like a nice day.
What a cutie!
April 1st, 2013  
Love this! The sweet lamb, proclaiming he's "King of the Castle" in the lovely, misty light - fave!
April 1st, 2013  
Such a cutie. I would have come round with my spoon if I'd known. I'm a good guest, I wash up.
April 1st, 2013  
Gorgeous capture.
April 1st, 2013  
great shot Jan :-)
April 1st, 2013  
Lee
Such a nice shot. Lovely tones.
April 1st, 2013  
Cute! Fav!
April 1st, 2013  
oh dear such a cutie.. =)
April 1st, 2013  
Sooo cute!!
April 1st, 2013  
And you have caught him mid bleat. Super shot Jan. Could it be that you have a glimmer of sun?
April 1st, 2013  
@lucypics Look at the date Lucy :0(
April 1st, 2013  
Yum Yum just my sort of meal!! He is the king of the castle!
April 1st, 2013  
Beautiful shot.
April 1st, 2013  
Fabulous shot Jan and a Fav. I knew your son would be OK and glad that he survived alright. It's quite natural to worry though. We wouldn't be good parents if we didn't! I love hearing about the Easter egg hunt in the hen house
April 1st, 2013  
Very cute lamb and lovely light.
April 1st, 2013  
mmm - that does sound yum and I am feeling very bad about our leg of lamb after seeing yet another gorgeous lamb pic. I tried to persuade Nigel to do a an Easter treasure hunt for the kids but nobody except me was on for it - and I offered egg dying/decorating and was turned down. I do have little friends I can rally but Adam's busy revising so that he can take time off for hockey later in the hols so I'll have to wait till he's back at school - they were all prepared to eat large amounts of Easter grub though luckily!
April 1st, 2013  
Another lovely shot. I love lambs
April 1st, 2013  
Aww! Such a pretty shot.of an inquisitive lamb. It looks as if he is having the time of his life!
April 2nd, 2013  
awwww....
April 2nd, 2013  
Oh he is soooo cute!! Love this shot
April 2nd, 2013  
Love both of these last two shots -both favs!
April 2nd, 2013  
A gr8 shot shot
April 3rd, 2013  
ahhhhhhhhhh he is so sweet. I missed your shots Jan, it is nice looking over them now so may not comment on all of them ok?
April 3rd, 2013  
@cookie123 Thanks Bernadette, it's nice of you to spend the time looking.
April 3rd, 2013  
So so cute!
April 3rd, 2013  
Beautiful composition and I like the light around the lamb! fav!
April 4th, 2013  
Oh I love it, I love it, I love it!! Fav xx
April 5th, 2013  
adorabaaaa-le!
April 8th, 2013  
Too cute. He is king of his little mountain.

I loved the story about the chickens laying 'special' eggs for Easter. Those kids will always remember that.
May 28th, 2013  
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