This morning started ridiculously early for me at 6am when the children woke up and discovered 3 chicks and had started even earlier for Ady who left around 430am to go to places like Birmingham. We were up, dressed, breakfasted and at the newly opened down the road Petsmart or Pet City or whatever they’re …
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The gang’s all here.
Welcome Freddie, born yesterday evening and named by Davies Punzel, born during the night and named by Scarlett Wobble, born very early this morning and named by me This is number four, born after a very, very lengthy breaking out at lunchtime today. The reason for the struggle might well be that he appears to …
Number four
Second black one has hatched, he (sexing appears to be something we can’t do properly for ages so I think they’ll all be ‘he’ for now) took a really long time to come out and looks slightly smaller and weaker than the rest but all externally correct. The two yellow ones are fluffing out nicely …
Hatchwatch II update
This morning we’re all up very early, so far we have Freddie (yellow), Punzel (yellow) an unnamed black chick who is mine to christen and number four is another black one in the process of hatching. Egg number five has cracks so by lunchtime we should have our full hatch. 5 out of 6 not …
Found it’s voice
noisy, noisy chick 🙂
swings and roundabouts
It’s been another of those days today, I’ve decided it isn’t hormones, it’s cabin fever, wet play syndrome. All the time I get out for a couple of walks a week I seem to be capable of being nice to people most of the time, when I am trapped, mentally and physically inside with people …
It’s a birthing video!
Hey watch this!
Things are happening 🙂
Hatchwatch II
Four out of the five eggs in the incubator currently look like this: and you can hear them all cheeping!!!
Back with a brief undate
I did well 🙂 I listed 38 things on ebay, two already have bids on them 🙂 I finished the book – haven’t started the next one yet but now the ebay pile is out of the way I can dedicate my time to reading the remaining four books in three weeks 🙂 Some washing …
Today…
I thought I was giving blood today but I’ve just checked the letter and it’s Thurday instead. So I’m going to continue being efficient and productive instead: Get some washing done – I’ve brought in the least soggy stuff off the line and as we’ve relented to turning the heating back on again it’s airing …
The rest of yesterday
I did indeed head into the playroom after my last blogpost, pulled out all the junk from both sets of craft drawers, threw away 3 large carrier bagfuls and almost a full blue box of scribbled on pieces of paper, reorganised the drawers, had a pop quiz with Davies having showed him what each contained …
So very magical
What looked like it might well be another day worthy of rants is doing rather well actually. I did shut the car door on my head in one of those random no idea how I actually quite managed it type accidents and actually saw little birds flying round my head for a few moments while …
And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
Yep, it’s another Lost Weekend. Where do they go eh? Working every other Saturday afternoon is proving to be a total bugger and really hampering our social lives. I think we’re booked every single one of our ‘free’ weekends from now until September and Davies’ swimming lessons on a Sunday morning mean even the free …
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Happy Birthday Ady
43 tomorrow! I did a bit of a slushy post – I know, not like me really 😉 – last year so if your Saturday night is cold and lonely and you want to read a bit of my sentimentality feel free to go and look at that. This year is rather more low key, …
Jurassic Park
said in the style of Alan Patridge. For all you tableists out there our day started yet again with D&S foraging for their own breakfasts before after Ady left at some ungodly hour and then coming and joining me back in bed for tickle fights. We got back up again and I sorted the kitchen …
Nic needs
assessment on correctional management and executive leadership development therapy a NOS to collect and distribute a variety of information physical address to have a static address to be reset to default values to be compatible with the Wi-fi standards to provide a clear statement of the purpose of the database. Hmm, works less well with …
Bank Holiday afternoon
I only worked until 130 today as I had hours owed to me for the library being closed on Monday for the bank holiday. They do this little sum where they work out your average hours per day (mine is 2.45) and then whenever the library is closed for bank holidays you get the equivalent …
Circle of being, with additional thanks to Mr Volke!
When I was a very new mother I read loads of books about parenting. Most I kept little bits of and discarded the rest, many I have since come to decide were not worth the paper they were written on and really I only paid heed to the ones which suited me anyway. But one …
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No need for the words
We did our annual photoblog day today, which you can see in all it’s glory over on Monster & Teeny – it was a good day for it really, lots of mixing with friends, Badgers, a Damp Spring Walk, a quick stint on the beach, frankly all that was missing was a spot of car …