The calves were in the garden over night eating the peas and trampling down our ill-starred strawberry netting. The gate used by visitors opens straight into a grassy paddock And you know that it is too much to expect your visitors to understand that gates are meant to be shut. After a disaster of this kind for a while, we make sure of the gate after the departure of our guests till security makes us careless again. The calves are grouped round the gate looking with solemn innocence into the forbidden ground.