It is a little frustrating for me that not having a landline connection here at Stratton House means that I have been unable to give this site my desired attention. There is much to do running The Stratton ABC Foundation and whereas I would have the time at home, finding time to get out to the local internet shop during its opening hours is quite a task.

So this is just a basic update on my blog to say that life is busy but good. The family atmosphere we have established here at Stratton House makes it a very pleasant place to live.

It means lots of early mornings for me but thats no problem as I tend to be a naturally early riser. of course I could do without the extra early ones I’ve had lately; such as when i was woken at 5am by the dogs barking incessantly outside.

Eventually I went to investigate and discovered that they had chased a young cat up one of our trees. Even after shutting the dogs away in the kitchen the frightened cat refused to move from its precarious perch.

It took nearly 2 hours to extract the cat from the tree and the final method, after managing to coax it to a lower branch, was to shove a broom at its backside forcing it to leap from the tree.

Thankfully the early disturbance did not affect my ride out with Ally later that day.