Monday, 13 April 2009

Its Spring and we have 6 chickens

April the 12th we got our chickens last week we got 6 in total 2 blue bells, one called blue bell the othe called hetty, two black rocks one called Enid the other called queenie on the account that she escaped the first two nights we had then over the fence, queenie??? I hear you cry Steve McQueen the great escape!!!!!! and two west sussex called Clucky and Doris they have all settled in well and seem content, i built their chicken coop for them and they seem right at home.

Kate had a nice week off last week we didnt do much apart from get our chickens plsy on the wii fit and play poker with the kids. She baked a lot chocolate muffins lemon meringue pie rocky road did a lovely sunday lunch for Nikki jon and brad and now she is in Spain dropped her off at humberside airport this lunch time back on friday.

Joe and Luke having a good restful holiday after a busy term at school\luke did well getting three awards for geography french and pe and joes parents evening went well, not up to much watching telly playing on the trampoline playing on the ps3 and the wii. Lukes football team is doing ok they are still on course to win the gradley league if they can win all their remaining games and are in the county cup final, clee mariners got a bit of a shock when we beat them in the league after they beat us in the cup they thought the league was theirs then they got beat off healing hotspurs who they still have to play again.

The garden is coming along planted a few more plants inthe border and sprinkled afew more seeds in, the veg plot is coming on onions garlic swede carrots are all sprouting had a bad case of damping in the green house and lost quite a lot of plants resown the seeds so try again.

getting used to the kitchen the house feels finished now and we are both delighted with it.

watching : heroes, dexter, football, damages excellent programme, gardeners world waiting for my free seeds, secret millionaire, the mentalist, robin hood and all the small things, grand designs which we are going to see in london looking forward to it

listening to kings of leon u2 loud guitars, elbow, la roux , whatever comes on shuffle

reading: gardeners world and watchmen

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