Ravaged To Death.

I’m sorry for such a long absence, I bet you all thought I got ravaged to death by her ladyship really though its nothing to worry about.

The weekend away with her was awesome, the best time in my whole life so far. I won’t go in to the details other than to say that I discovered Nicole is a very demanding woman which is fine by me as I like such challenges.

There was one incident that put a bit of a damper on things and that happened when we got up on Saturday afternoon. She had her phone turned off all the time since we got there but as we were leaving for a walk around the village she turned it on to discover seventeen missed calls and numerous messages from his lordship. She said she had better call him as he wouldn’t leave off phoning so she called him back and put the phone on loudspeaker so I could hear and it was quite alarming to hear him. The first thing he said was, ‘Where the devil are you woman’? She explained that she was away for the weekend and he then asked why she didn’t attend the appointment with the consultant or whatever it was she was supposed to go to the other week. She told him straight that she had said several times that she had no intention of visiting anyone or having his child just because he said so.

He then said, ‘You stupid woman I think you will find that being my wife you’re obliged to provide me with suitable offspring'.

She told me later that by suitable he meant a son. I’m quite a placid sort of person but when I heard him say that to her I felt real anger build up inside me. Before she got to reply he then said,

‘You do realise what an absolute disappointment you are not only to my family but your own family and the estate’.

Then she said something that I thought was so awesome and proves what a smart lady she is, which was,

‘Perhaps if you were a man you would be able to tell your family the truth which I’m sure would leave them far more disappointed in you than I’.

Everything went quiet for a short while, she obviously struck a nerve. He then said,

‘Well darling if you’re going to be so pathetic about things I am going to be forced to evaluate you roll in things around here as its obvious from this conversation that you have no thought for the estate, its staff or the future of either, you’re a very selfish person who’s only thought in life is to take everything she can for herself and give nothing back in return. I’m going to make one more appointment for you and if you fail to keep it there will be no more giving on my part’,

And with that he put the phone down. So as you can imagine it was not a nice situation and from what Nicole says this sort of thing is going on all the time in private. It amazes me how he never seems to think about the causes of it all. I want to tell everyone what he’s doing with that Tony but Nicole said I mustn’t say a word about anything, which is really hard after what I heard that day. Anyway the new appointment is for Wednesday and she isn’t going so goodness knows what will happen. All I know is that I will stand by my beautiful lady and hold and comfort her.

When I got back from the weekend away the sheep had started lambing so I all my time away from work has been spent at the farm looking after them. They aren’t our sheep but belong to the farmer who I help when he’s busy. The place we live used to be a farm but the guy who had it before us sold up after the foot and mouth. He sold the land to the neighbour and we bought the house and buildings, dad has the idea of turning them in to cottages one day but knowing dad it will be some day never. Anyway its this neighbour guy who I have been helping all last week, I only got two hours sleep one night because there was trouble and we have to get the vet out at three in the morning and he did an operation there and then in the barn so I was pretty tired the next day but Nicole was such a sweetie and made me take it easy.
I took a few pictures while away and also of the sheep and lambs so I guess you would rather see the cute stuff first. The lamb in the picture is one I had to help as it had a leg back. Don’t confuse it with the one from the operation, I never took any pics of that.