Lyra, Oggs, Berrie, Zeb and Binkle....OVER HERE!!!!

[binkleandflip]

Oh I know! Get one for me too!

Oh oh oh! I think we've got a broody!
Trouble is...the broody coop will be easy to knock up but a bigger flock means a new run and house...killing the cockerels and having too amy eggs for us. If I bought 6 fertile eggs how many do you reckon would hatch?

Maybe I just need to turf her out...

The one time I was given 6 eggs (buff orpington) only 1 of the 6 hatched.
Using my own eggs I have varied success - this latest lot was a 5/10 hatch, but previously have had 13/13.

Have got back ache. Have stuffed over 200 envelopes today.

Boo!

So...does my broody hen stop sitting in the nest box because I take her eggs away or is she undecided?

I don't have a pot egg...will a boiled egg do or will hey eat it?

Oggs, why are you stuffing envelopes?

Evening .
No idea Berrie, I've always either left them on the eggs or cruelly evicted them and blocked access.
Zeb, I was sending out promotional info for the next festival in Sept.
Am now at parents (with broadband, woo hoo!) flight took just over an hour and we were here by 9:30am

Did Dd have fun? Do you miss dh when you are away?
What do you have planned?

Dd spent the whole journey saying "wicked" and "cooool"

I made the foolish mistake of buying drinks on the plane....
... £2.50 for a coffee (was actually prepped for this after the trip to London, so wasn't too shocking) but I offered to buy dd a coke as a treat.
I was handed one of those borrower sized cans and charged ....wait for it......£1.50!!!{shock]

Weather is miserable after yesterday's sunshine so we'll spend today making plans.

We've also discovered that we brought some stowaways with us in the shape of farkin' headlice . I thought I'd blitzed the buggers.
Off to chemist for deadly nuke 'em lice poison....

Oh dear !

The weather is sunny here at the moment but perhaps I won't put the washing out today.
Am going to work out today whether I can turn dd's cot into a broody coop. Is it ok to do it at this time of year do you think or should we wait for the spring?

I've no idea Berrie. I think I've left the world of self sufficiency and farming behing me for the time being, so I've deleted that information from my mental hard drive.

Oggs, are you having fun?

Berrie, I'm going to order that poster on Thursday (payday). But I thought I might throw in a couple of other RSC posters to frame for my kitchen to be all artyfarty. Am I sad or just pretentious? DT or not, I just think it's a brilliant picture. Although DT helps.

Ooo am envious of your poster Zeb. Do you think dh would put up with one on our bedroom wall?

Oggs do you have a link to your hen house? I'm thinking of getting one for my birthday instead of farting around with wood, weld mesh and staple guns and making a mess.

You could explain it as your newfound love of Shakespeare.

Berrie, dh is building the hen house so no link. I'll take a photo when I get home so you can see it - I'm hoping it will be completed by then .

That poster is very nice Zeb, and DT is looking very 4uckable dashing . I'm very Berrie.

We're having a lovely time and I'm just off to get a southern comfort and lemonade .

Dashing indeed. The tickets for London go on sale in September, so I have it in my diary. Anyone else up for another theatre trip - I think it's on at the Novello in Dec/Jan? Obviously this one will be a culturally enriching experience.

Awful quiet round these parts. I'm going back to my spreadsheet.

Oggs !

Talking of shocking, my children won't go to sleep! Only a month ago we were happily popping them up at 6.30 pm no bother but since dd started climbing out of her cot they talk and fight and dd comes downstairs until passed 9pm. We've tried sticker charts and putting ds in our bed but it hasn't worked...last night dh went out and I settled down with a glass of wine and a bar of chocolate and Brokeback mountain. I got so exasperated with the pair of them that I gave up at 8pm and went to bed. Dd came in with me and promptly fell asleep then so did I.

Anyway, today a friend is coming to help have a big clear out of toys and other clutter.

Glad that you are having a good time Oggs. What are you up to Zeb/Lyra?

Mine won't go to sleep either. I think it's a combination of being both at the flat and the farm, and the weather which is just yucky sticky.

Last night he wouldn't sleep AT ALL. He had some insect bites on his back which were itching, then he had a tooth coming through. We tried my bed, then his bed and every time I left him he started screaming. In the end, I pulled out the guest bed under his and collapsed with him on top of me, ramming a cold flannel on his face as I had no calpol . I got about 2 1/2 hours sleep and am now mainlining black coffee whilst trying to focus on finance spreadsheets.

I think I might go for the star chart though. It might work.

Oh dear Zeb, poor you that's horrid. How old is he now? Dd is 3 in September and really didn't understand the star chart thing. ...or she is so bloody minded she didn't care!

He was 3 in June. And he loves being a 'good boy' and getting stars and things. Except when he's being a 'naughty boy'.
Shopping list for lunchtime: Calpol. Star chart. Gin. More calpol. More gin.

Can't you promise her Jaffa cakes or something at the end of the week as her prize? I think blackmail, bribery and coercian are a must for the modern mum.

The prize was smarties. I need a better prize, you're right. If I hear 'No, don't want to!' one more time I will screeeeaaaam!

On a more positive note my friend has just left with a boot full of stuff for the tip!

Did you throw in DD for the tip as well?

And I've just ordered my poster, along with a couple of other Shakespeare-y things. "4uckable dashing" you say Oggs? I'll let you know.

Don't tempt me!