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Ethelred Goat

@ethelredgoat.bsky.social

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Chickens, cats and twaddle, accompanied by exaggeration and drama. Runs backwards at weddings. Forest dweller, chicken whisperer, cat cuddler, crisp eater. Hampshire, UK.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · May 18

Xtreme Potat. 🥰

Ginger is perched on the bench. She is wider than she is tall.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Fed up of all the numbers now.
😞😖😐😒😞

Bingo card with numbers dabbed out in blue.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am at The Bingo.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am a lucky girl. I am Margo. This is me on the day I was rescued out of the farm. I got up on this roof and looked at human and she looked at me, and she gave me a cuddle even though I was stinky and wet and then she took me home. 🥰

A bedraggled ginger hen stands on a towel on top of a henhouse roof.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

I luv avin a barth. 🫧

Margo the golden speckled hen looks at the camera whilst reclining in a dirty hole she’s dug herself.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Isn’t she? And she wasn’t moving for anybody or anything! 😂

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Happy Friday! Who’s like to see a video of a lady having a bath?

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Instagram is a steaming cess pit of awful.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Floofy is feeling better. Thankyou for all your well wishes. 😊

Tabby and white cat rolling on his back on a brown fleece. A small piece of red tartan fleece to one side.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’ve decided to distract myself from the crisps by finishing the compulsory sexual harassment awareness video I’m halfway through.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Can’t stop thinking about the crisps I’m having later. Perhaps I should test them now to make sure they are ok?

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

They are, but I am so close to that cat, I know instantly when things aren’t quite right. But I escalate it and panic and it helps no one.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dreadful anxiety I can’t bear it when they’re ill. 😭

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

That was his face when he was realising that the morning wasn’t going to schedule.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Fingers crossed we think he’s ok but he was quite poorly yesterday.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

He later escaped out of the bathroom window and we had to crawl into the hedge to drag him out. That was not dignified for anyone.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’ve been quiet because Edward Cat was not well. But he’s much better today. This was his face first thing when he couldn’t have breakfast because of vet visit.

A tabby and white cat sits in the kitchen with empty bowls.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Can’t concentrate on work, am preparing blankets, Prosecco and nibbles for open air theatre later.

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our neighbours came to our wedding, in Italy.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 22

That scene would make a lovely painting.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lovely 😊

Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy birthday @missymollymol.bsky.social ! 🐾 xx

An illustration of three black cats round a pink birthday cake (cannot find artist credit)

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Lovely! ☺️

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Years ago when I was at the cat orphanage adopting Edward I was sitting on a bench waiting and the resident mouser strolled up to me and punched me on the arm so hard it left a cat paw shaped bruise.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 20

Alice hopes you’ve had a lovely SUNday even if it RAINed. ☀️

A speckled hen looking straight at the camera.

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Ethelred Goat @ethelredgoat.bsky.social · Jul 20

I have made some progress clearing brambles and stinging nettles from my much ignored front garden. Minimal stings and scratches.