Controversial Mermaid!

She made me smile though and at least she sold!!

2010 - My year of the Chickens!

My pictures never seem to be in the right order, but here we go.....

This is the chicken house we were given by Rob's nephew (the small bit on the left!).

After never really wanting chickens, I decided that as realistically this plot of land would never be turned into a vegetable patch, it would be an ideal spot!

We had a realistic, but high quote to get the additional run built for us, so I decided to have a go myself!

Although I had originally wanted to get some ex-battery hens, none were due for release when I was itching to get some, so after looking on the internet, I found a breeder who we bought these from - this picture is missing the white one, named Dave.
We had only had them a few months when suddenly all three went seriously broody.

I tried turfing them out but they just got noisier and noisier, so after emailing the breeder again, I decided to put some of her eggs under them!

Crikey..

Almost an entire year since I last posted - sometimes I even amaze myself!

Well, I can hardly sit and write all that has happened in 12 months, so for a few MAJOR things, here goes:

Rob's mum sadly passed away last May and after the funeral, sorting of the house, valuations etc, we suddenly made the decision to try and sell our own, tiny terrace and buy it ourselves.

We moved in November.

Just weeks before we moved in, mum slipped in the house (doing me a favour) and fractured her femur.

She is still housebound and under varying stages of hospital treatment.

However, I finally have a craft room - the picture shows the "tidy end!" I added the shelves to the cupboards on Monday, and have been buying more storage boxes every day!