Month October 2009

Broody Hen

Our little white hen has gone broody. Happily, she seems quite content to be broody without sitting on any eggs, although we do have to pick her up occasionally to make sure that she’s not snuck a couple of eggs…

Rain

Well, we had a day of storms. Windy and wet. ….and sadly my workshop roof leaked, which was disappointing. I guess, however that we’ll just have to live with this level of leaks. It is better than it has been…

I’m ready for my close up meow!

I just got back from the pilar and filling up our water container to find Tibs making her presence known from the roof of the barn. I had my camera with me as I always take it with me when…

MakeForBaby

When I said that we’ve been disappointed with the performance of MakeForBaby, perhaps I was expecting some form of miracle, as we noticed that we didn’t have advertising on many pages – hence the fact it didn’t generate much (any)…

New FreeNeedle

The new FreeNeedle site has been relaunched – FreeNeedle. It’s doing really well at the moment, and after two approaches recently from people wanting to buy it, we’ve decided that if we’re not going to sell it, which we’re not,…

Ian and Fibs

Noone can say that we don’t have fun. Or perhaps, noone can say that we don’t give the cats a never ending supply of amusement. Today we were trying to take pics of a paper chandelier, which is a project…

Clever

I use the British Council website sometimes in my English classes. There is a wide range of games that are educational. However, today I came across this – Try it and then think how to explain to an amazed…

Gosh, is it that time of year already?

Thought perhaps I should confirm my existence by posting on the blog once again. Fortunately, following my birthday I’ve not been spending time with sheep or a knitting machine, but have been learning more about the camera that Kate bought…

What’s Missing?

The van was taken for scrap. The scrap man kept saying he would ‘make it disappear’. We kept assuring him that it was legal (we scrapped it in the UK a couple of years ago), but he seemed to prefer…