Month April 2009

See how the brown paper is attached to the tiles (you need to look at the picture further down the page for this to make sense…)

We’re experiencing those ‘wow’ moments again. I know that it will wear off, there is only so long that we can stare at the ceiling with amazement without it becoming old hat. The ceiling at the end of the hall…

…however how good is this? It is brown paper with masking tape attached. This may be extremely common in decorating circles – but I’ve not seen it before and I am very impressed!

The decorating has started so we are back to being camped in a single room, but thankfully this is the beginning of the end of the building work. So far so good, although there was a little confusion over the…

Bob and Henry enjoying the sun.

Chicks are now off the heat lamp an spending the days in the garage (with the painter here the cats are in my workshop). Not long before they are allowed outside. They are missing having a mother hen role model…

tWe decided to put Billy out in the back yard, by where the chickens are going to live. We thought that this was a nice place and also, we have long said that Billy would dearly love to come back…

We went to see two parades over Easter. One on Good Friday morning, which was a small one and a larger one Friday afternoon. This was the one that was on the television. After we watched the parade we went…

Chicks are doing well, although they are in the straggly stage where they just look like they’ve had a bad fright. Their proper feathers are coming through and, being silkies, this gives them random tufts. They are still looking grumpy…