Spring equinox and new chickens

Saturday began , by discovering three little chickens on the season table. They were instantly hidden away in little hands and pockets.A quick donning of socks and wellies later we went to see what was to be found in the garden,

OH! A golden egg! With chick inside ...and ...chocolate.....OOOOHHH!

A bit of grafting in the rain to get the chickens run super fox proof for the new arrivals

New chicken , a white star named Terra ( short for Pterodayctl or however it is you spell it!)

New chicken , a gold ranger named Brook

slipping..

I feel like all my ideals are slipping at the minute. I feel really tired and sick and everything seems like such a lot of effort. I'm happy and everyone else is good too ....but i just feel sooooo lethargic and uninterested.

In a twist of irony my body also seems to be craving the crappiest, junkiest , rubbish foods devoid of all vitamins and goodness and i have given in :-(

A green smoothie has not passed my lips for days and days and salad seems like a distant memory. I have no doubt that were i eating fresh living vibrant healthy food i would no doubt feel tonnes better for it but it the thought is quite unappetising. And don't get me started on fizzy drinks, something i previously hardly ever drank now i can't get enough. I have even started eating meat again too. So i need to TRY harder! Not just in the food area too, with tiredness comes more car use , more TV, and more inactivity..

I will try to..

Have at least one smoothie a day green or otherwise .

When the junk is gone DON'T BUY MORE!!!!

Walk to places i can get to without the car.

Turn the tv off

Ok so its only a VERY small list but i think at the minute it is to eay to fail so baby steps and all!

Hopefully the better diet and more excersise will give me my mojo back and once i'm past the first trimester things should perk up a bit more.

Anyway on a more positive note here are a few pics from the weekend . And a VERY lovely it weekend it was too!!

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Elvis has left the building...

Ok so now Elvis and the Boo Boo chicken are dead. BLOODY FOX got in their run ( its all enclosed so i don't even know how?!) and they are gone !!!! Feathers and a bit of blood are all thet remain.

Luckily Cuddly is still ok as she was in disgrace in the new coop. Now i don't want to put her back in the old one cos it obviously isn't safe .....AAaaaarrrggghhh . Now what ? I think we will have to redo the run and make it more secure.


I suspect the kids will not be impressed . Huh! Well that makes two of us then







fucking fox

Elvis isn't dead.

She's living in our garden. Meet Elvis and The Boo Boo Chicken. Elvis is the grey one , the Boo Boo Chicken is the one cowering near the nesting box! We went to get some new chickens on Saturday . Left them in the coop to get used to it then at bed time opened the hatch so that they could meet their new house mate...Cuddly Blue...aka one naughty chicken! Cuddly Blue has , since Saturday, made her sole purpose in life to harrass the new chickens to death. Not just the odd ' i'm the boss around here' kind of a peck but proper full on i'm going to fight you to the death harrasment. Hence Cuddly's new coop for the next couple of days. Its got a couple of levels but its not the roomiest of spaces so hopefully after a couple of days separation she will have calmed down enough to be reintroduced to the new chickens. Hopefully the new chickens will also feel brave enough to come out of the coop and not feel the need to cower with their bottoms in the air in a nesting box!

This week we've also done some painting and some planting . After painting a picture of a cat for him my little lovely exclaimed ' Oh Mummy you make my heart feel so happy!' ....... take that Enid Blyton!

Mothers ( and fathers) meeting

Finally got round to uploading these!Another meet up with some green mama's ( and a dadda) at one of my favourite places. The sun shone and it was warm when we sat in it and snacked, but it was ruddy cold in the shade!

We actually sat for rather a long time in the sun, eating and chatting, discussing knitting, crochet food swapping . The children ran back and forth , hid in caves, poked in holes, splashed in puddles, peered through a magnifying glass ( thanks Morgan) and generally had a rather lovely time .

RIP Snowdrop and Cornelia

Snowdrop and Cornelia ( hens) sadly are no more. What i am assuming is a fox has had them, it must have happened in the night , this morning i was forewarned by our neighbour that there were white feathers all over the grass and there was only one chicken left. sniff sniff! I feel quite shocked . Apparently one of the doors was slightly ajar on their house ( this is confusing as i don't usually use that door as it sticks and is difficult to open!) anyway they are GONE , and i'm afraid probably dead too. Sonny isn't actually that upset because his chicken is okay ( fickle !) but i'm sensing Maya and Jamie might be a little bit more bothered when they find out .

We would have had them a year next week . Oh well such is life! Think a trip to the Chook man may be in order, well Cuddly Blue is lonely on her own you know!