We have spent the last two days on the beach. Our friends rent a beach hut at Sutton on Sea so that they can spend time with their four grandsons. By heck it's hard work!! They never stop eating and drinking and playing rounders and digging to Australia etc. It's been very enjoyable.
Tomorrow we will have a day off. I am going to the hairdressers at 10am.
My chickens are not all laying again but we are still managing to sell a couple of dozen a week so they are still earning their keep.
One has laid an enormous egg this morning. I don't think I have ever seen one so big. I shall have it for breakfast tomorrow.
On Saturday I am judging the cakes and produce at the 87th Alford Horticulture Show. I am a bit nervous about getting it right as there is a lot riding on it for some of the entrants!
Love Sheila xx
Tuesday 29 July 2008
Thursday 17 July 2008
Rainy day,
I haven't felt much like blogging since I set the kitchen on fire on Saturday. However it didn't turn out too bad in the end but I really must be more careful in future. I blame the chickens of course! I was cooking something for them when I was sidetracked into discussing where to put the new hen house, which is splendid by the way,and of course the whole house was full of evil black smoke and the pan ? Well let's just say that flames were leaping!
This morning there was a disturbance amongst the chickens with chasings and mobbing etc. When I went out to investigate I found that the chicken we call Tina had a huge frog in her beak and the others were trying to take it off her. I eventually removed it and threw it into the dyke but it was very badly pecked and wouldn't live.Oh well that's nature, red in tooth and claw, and now beak!
Yesterday we went to Coningsby with the W.I to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was wonderful. We had requested a guide who we had met before. He's 85 years old and so funny he makes the war come alive again. We saw Dacotas,Spitfires, Hurricanes and best of all the Lancaster Bomber. The only one in the world still flying! the whole day out was wonderful. We later went for a meal in a famous restaurant. It's in a forest and you would never find it. The food wasn't gourmet exactly, just basic things but quite expensive, but we enjoyed the company etc.
Tomorrow is Grahams birthday so we will be going out for another meal with friends and Sonia if she comes.
Must go because I have got a whiskey Mac cake in the oven and we don't want another calamity.
Love Sheila xx
This morning there was a disturbance amongst the chickens with chasings and mobbing etc. When I went out to investigate I found that the chicken we call Tina had a huge frog in her beak and the others were trying to take it off her. I eventually removed it and threw it into the dyke but it was very badly pecked and wouldn't live.Oh well that's nature, red in tooth and claw, and now beak!
Yesterday we went to Coningsby with the W.I to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was wonderful. We had requested a guide who we had met before. He's 85 years old and so funny he makes the war come alive again. We saw Dacotas,Spitfires, Hurricanes and best of all the Lancaster Bomber. The only one in the world still flying! the whole day out was wonderful. We later went for a meal in a famous restaurant. It's in a forest and you would never find it. The food wasn't gourmet exactly, just basic things but quite expensive, but we enjoyed the company etc.
Tomorrow is Grahams birthday so we will be going out for another meal with friends and Sonia if she comes.
Must go because I have got a whiskey Mac cake in the oven and we don't want another calamity.
Love Sheila xx
Wednesday 9 July 2008
the babies!
It's very hard to get a good photo of them as they won't keep still long enough. They are on the go from morning til night. We don't keep them caged now and they are getting better at dodging the pecks from the big birds.
the new home.
This is the new shed that Graham is making to house the babies. They are not that welcome in Cluckingham Palace so need a place of their own. What shall we call this one?Saturday 5 July 2008
Friday 4 July 2008
AH !!!
Yesterday "Bob the goose" took us to Brigg farmers market/auction. We had to leave at 7.30am and we didn't get home until after 4pm. It was very good. I wanted to bid for some fancy chickens and of course Graham panicked about whether I would get carried away at the bidding. It all worked out well though. I was standing next to this man who bought a box full of lovely six week olds. "do you want all of those?" I asked him. "Why?" he replied. "Well I only want two!" "oh well" he said " you can have two of these, choose the ones you want and give me £2" So I took a lovely black one with a white head and a white one with a yellow head. I have no idea if they are hens or cocks and no idea what breed they are but they are sooooo cute!
Graham got some bargains at the wood sale which he will probably tell you about and Bob the goose bought all sorts of wire and stuff for his goose farm. There was a meat auction but I hadn't come prepared with a cold box so I didn't bid. I did bid on a carrier bag of Bananas for 50p and several ears of corn on the cob for my girls.
we came though torrential rain on the way home and I was worried about my babies on the back of Bobs flatbed truck but luckily everyone was ok. However my girls have not taken kindly to the babies and have pecked them terribly, especially the white one who is a little frailer then the black one. We have had to segregate them and we had to put the babies in a box to sleep last night. They are fine this morning in their own little pen and are eating heartily and cheeping like mad.
My girls are now giving us 5 eggs a day but we can't tell which one is not laying.
my friend Mrs le Blade has been chosen along with another W.I member to appear on a Trinnie and Susanna. They are to be picked up and taken to Surrey for the filming. It's all very exciting!!
good to see the videos from Montana, They do seem to have two soundtracks. Is there something wrong with the camera?
Sheila x
Graham got some bargains at the wood sale which he will probably tell you about and Bob the goose bought all sorts of wire and stuff for his goose farm. There was a meat auction but I hadn't come prepared with a cold box so I didn't bid. I did bid on a carrier bag of Bananas for 50p and several ears of corn on the cob for my girls.
we came though torrential rain on the way home and I was worried about my babies on the back of Bobs flatbed truck but luckily everyone was ok. However my girls have not taken kindly to the babies and have pecked them terribly, especially the white one who is a little frailer then the black one. We have had to segregate them and we had to put the babies in a box to sleep last night. They are fine this morning in their own little pen and are eating heartily and cheeping like mad.
My girls are now giving us 5 eggs a day but we can't tell which one is not laying.
my friend Mrs le Blade has been chosen along with another W.I member to appear on a Trinnie and Susanna. They are to be picked up and taken to Surrey for the filming. It's all very exciting!!
good to see the videos from Montana, They do seem to have two soundtracks. Is there something wrong with the camera?
Sheila x
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