Helena Bonham Carter's New Baby!

Mother and Calf doing well

Yes Spring is upon us, before we had time to say BRRR it's cold.

And of course, being Spring, our own tiny Animal Kingdom is proving as fecund as ever.

In the Ewe Department, 14 of our girls have produced 24 lambs to date, with 2 mothers still to go.

Zara Wing is introduced to someone brand new and her size by a mother The Prop is unable to identify. Possibly Angelica Huston

And in the Cow Department, our first arrival this year is a yet unnamed calf from one of our Highland Cows -- Helena Bonham Carter. (HBC took the name after the previous HBC, a chicken, left this mortal agrarian coil -- almost certainly dispatched by a ferret. Yep, its risky being posh out here on the farm.)

Helen Bonham Carter inspects her new calf. She seems somewhat startled at having produced a white wooly number. She may have forgotten that the calf's father is a rather imposing white coloured bull. Then again, it was quite a while ago, and he hasn't been seen since. Men...