Month May 2009

Well, my laptop crossed at the weekend. This had the potential to be a bit of a disaster, but luckily Ian was able to sort it. When I say lucky, it was lucky for me, not for him. Ian has…

We’ve been looking at our chicken’s heads. Silkies are notoriously difficult to sex and even experienced breeders say that the only true way is to wait until one has an egg. Apparently, however, one way of sexing silkies is to…

The painter is having fun now! He has given all the old wood doors left in the house a makeover and has given them a wood effect. Everyone agreed that they were not in good enough condition to strip, so…

I was listening to an interesting feature on the radio about a man who had found his grandfather’s letters from the first world war and had published them in ‘real time’ on a blog, 90 years to the date since…

Cats love boxes, which is why I always have to wrestle Davy out of the light box before I can take photos.

The chicks are taking well to life in the barn, although we shut them in my workshop (in their box) at night. The biggest problem is teaching them to be chickens. So far we’ve had to teach them that their…

Ian and I were talking about having a proper workshop area. Not a crafty workshop, but a DIY workshop and we decided to make part of the garage over to a DIY corner. There-s both natural light and electricity (talking…