We’ve rehomed some of our chickens – in fact all bar three hens and one cockeral. The one cockeral we didn’t rehome is called Limpy. So that gives a bit of a clue as to why we didn’t rehome him.…

Both Pirata and Wilbur appeared to have a funny five minutes yesterday. Admittedly, it’s not that unusual for Pirata to play a special cat and mouse game with a mouse that only he can see, however yesterday he was quite…

Rosie has amassed quite an array of unpleasant habits. However she has plunged new depths with her current unpleasentness – slug slurping. When she is out walking she hoovers up slugs as she walks. She doesn’t miss a step, simply…

Well, since the start of March the weather has turned miserable. Shame as this has curtailed our asparagus picking. I realise we are fair weather asparagus pickers. Last week was Carnival, and there was a super-fiesta on Sunday where Carnival…

I’ve just finished a ghost writing assignment for Quatro Press. I had to write short introductions to four chapters of a new ‘Bead Jewelry Designer’s Encyclopedia’. I quite enjoyed it! I had to write in the original author’s style, and…

After eight weeks, I just have to accept that ‘Ambridge Being Rocked to the Core’ actually meant a small wobble when Nigel fell off the roof. Yes, I’m sorry that Nigel died, and in such pantomime fashion (although admittedly we…

In the spirit of double dip depression, I have been suffering from a double dip cold. It started at the beginning of the week, Thursday I was feeling decidedly better and then Friday it started all over again. Ian has…

Well, you just won’t believe how dusty our house is. Oh, well perhaps you will. Even given our dust collection tendency, we are getting over run by dust and disappearing fast. This time it is dust from the building works…

Rosie’s turned into a bit of a handful over the last few days. Probably due to the fact that Ian and I were congratulating ourselves on having an exceptionally well behaved puppy, a comment that was bound to bring chaos…