Those of you who read JennieWorld Today will no doubt have already had a good chortle over your cornflakes this morning. If you don’t, head over there now and see what Tia and Scrumpy got to yesterday while I was driving B to her parents’ house for a long weekend… Right, now that you’ve stopped [...]
Archive for January, 2009
31 Jan
Seed catalogues
I am starting to look at vegetable seeds in an attempt to decide what I want to grow this year and whilst I’m no closer to deciding what I want to try my hand at, I also need to make a decision about where on earth (excuse the pun!) I’ll get whatever it is I [...]
29 Jan
Waterproofing the Eglu run!
For months and months, I have been meaning to get arse down to Ikea to buy one of their 90p transparent shower curtains to put over the Eglu run to stop the chickens from getting soaking wet every time it rains (no jokes about it being Wales, thank you!). On Tuesday, I finally did the [...]
28 Jan
Why aren’t your pigs rooting?!
Last week, as I was cleaning out the chickens in the orchard, a car pulled up by the house and on seeing me wave, the driver walked determinedly over to me. He had a grim look on his face and my spider senses started to tingle. “Are they your pigs?”, he barked? I paused for [...]
27 Jan
Holocaust Memorial Day 2009
Today, 27 January, marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp. That was sixty-four years ago. Time is passing. I was listening to Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2 on Sunday, and one of Aled Jones’s guests was Rabbi Pete Tobias who spoke movingly about the Holocaust and seemed to [...]
26 Jan
Chick update!
It occurred to me last night that I haven’t posted any photos of the chicks for ages so here you go! What a change since they hatched in November: Mind you, look at how much Buffy’s trio have changed since they hatched in July:
25 Jan
Italian Job conundrum is ‘solved’
I’ve always loved The Italian Job*, from the mini chase to the best quote ever (“you’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”) to that ending. Every time I see the film, I hope that the ending will change, just so we can find out what happens but … no! Until now! Some boffin [...]
24 Jan
RSPB Birdwatch 2009
Earlier today, I took part in the RSPB Birdwatch and had a fantastic time doing so. As a kid, I found birds and birdwatching to be extremely dull so never learnt anything about even the most common of our British garden birds, let alone anything more exotic. That is something I have come to regret [...]
24 Jan
Return to Ogmore
I took the dogs back to Ogmore-by-Sea yesterday and was lucky enough to have the beach to myself. Of course, this could be because the wind so was strong that I had to leave after about half an hour because it gave me a headache, even through my hat! The dogs had fun though and [...]
23 Jan
A dog in a coat
Midge absolutely hates the wet and the cold. So, if it’s raining and/or windy and/or snowing and/or hailing (you get the picture), then she’s bloody miserable. I know all Jack Russells have the ability to sit there and shiver for no reason but in bad weather, her shivers are genuine, especially as she is outside [...]
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